Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

"Last minute stay of Clyde Braakman" (eng. "Clyde Bruckman''s Final Repose") is the fourth episode of the third season of the television series "Secret materials". It belongs to the class of "monster of the week" and has nothing to do with the main "mythology" of the series, given in the first series.

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In St. Paul, Minnesota, an elderly man, Clyde Braakman, coming out of the store, facing a tall, thin man, Lillard headed to the salon fortune teller - Madame Selm. Lillard admits to fortune that sometimes sees the future and is committing "terrible things", and then brutally kills her.

Several days later Mulder and Scully arrive at the scene of the murder of another fortune-teller, who predicted the future by reading the tea leaves, and collecting dolls. The local police invites the eccentric clairvoyant, Amazing Yuppie, to help in the investigation. Yuppie gives a very vague hum, absolutely not featuring low cut agents, unlike police officers.

Meanwhile, Braakman, taking out the garbage, finds a tank, the corpse of Madame Selm. During the interrogation, Braakman mentions parts unknown from open sources, and Mulder suspects that, unlike the Yuppies, the psychic is genuine. Citing the Braakman in the apartment of kollekcionery dolls, the agents learn from him the details which the corpse of a woman. Attempts to obtain information about the killer, leading Mulder to the conclusion that the Braakman can see only the details of death. On a keychain found at the scene of several crimes, the agents, using the abilities of the Braakman, found in the forest the corpse of Claude Dukenfield – owner of investment company who Braakman, by coincidence, a few months earlier had sold the insurance policy. On the clothes of Dukinfield the FBI find the silk fibers similar to the fibers found on the sites of other crimes. Braakman receives a letter from the killer with the threat of murder and a request to send greetings to the agents, dated before Braakman began to help the agents. Braakman informs Mulder that the murderer he foresaw he would kill Mulder: in a restaurant kitchen, with a knife, after Mulder is distracted, standing a foot in cake on the floor. Meanwhile, Lillard kills the fortune teller Tarot cards that predicted the murderer that his life will soon change dramatically with the advent of women.

Agents transported the Braakman to the hotel and start in shifts to guard him. Scully is moving closer to the Braakman, but her question of how she would die, he replies that this does not happen, however, they will be together in bed, in a special moment for both. Mulder calls Scully to survey the scene of the murder of fortuneteller in the Tarot, leaving the Braakman detective Hawes. Leaving the room, Scully is faced with a corridor, which turns out to be Lillard. The killer, waiting for care agents, enters the room of the Braakman, where he manages to get the explanation that he kills simply because he is a "maniac psycho." Here from the toilet goes Hawes, and Lillard attacking him. Scully on one of the cards of the Tarot realizes that the killer was the bellboy. The hotel Mulder notices of Lillard and rushes off in pursuit, being in the kitchen. Stepping into the cake, the agent, mindful of the prediction of the Braakman, turns, but him from behind with a knife jumps Lillard. Maniac almost manages to kill Mulder, but then there is Scully, just shot to Lillard in the chest. Not finding the Braakman in the hotel, the agents find him dead in his apartment with a bag over his head. Sitting down on the bed, stunned by what had happened to Scully finds the pills the old man in the hand. Later that night, Scully, seeing the catchy TV ads Amazing Yuppie hatred throws the phone to the TV screen.

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The series shows several clairvoyants. The main are Brookman and Lillard, but there are others - numerous fortune tellers and predictors who fall prey to a maniac.

Brookman develops his abilities after he was struck in 1959 by his chain of coincidences of the death of his favorite actor. He can see the circumstances of people's deaths, including his own. He doesn't have a specific trigger that causes vision - he can predict by picking up something, going to a certain place or just looking at a person. Also, at least once he perceives the visions of a maniac as if looking at them with his eyes.

Brookman believes that what he saw will come true, and it is impossible to prevent it. The development of the plot shows that at least the future seen by him through the eyes of a maniac can be changed.