4X12 Kaddish

Writer: Howard Gordon
Director: Kim Manners
Original Broadcast: AU: 21.05.1997 US: 16.02.1997
Episode Availability: DVD: AU CA UK US

Cast:
Special Agent Dana Scully · Gillian Anderson
Special Agent Fox Mulder · David Duchovny

Guest Cast:
Isaac Luria · Harrison Coe
Rabbi · David Freedman
Detective · George Gordon
Jacob Weiss · David Groh
Tony Oliver · Timur Karabilgin
Clinton Maguire · Jabin Litwiniec
Ariel Luria · Justine Miceli
First Hasidic Man · Murrey Rabinovitch
Derek Banks · Channon Roe
Kenneth Ungar · David Wohl
Curt Brunjes · Jonathan Whittaker

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A murder in a Jewish community leads to the deaths of the killers, forcing Mulder and Scully to determine whether vengeance or larger forces are at work.

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Scully: "Apparently he'd been watching this tape when he was strangled to death."
Mulder: "Very Old Testament."
Scully: "Yeah, but with a new twist. The Brooklyn Homicide detectives contacted the FBI Civil Rights branch with an interesting set of fingerprints that they'd pulled off the boy's body."
Mulder: "Interesting how?"
Scully: "Interesting in that they belonged to Isaac Luria."
Mulder: "Risen from the grave to avenge his own death?"

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Mulder: "Yeah, spectral figures are not often known to leave fingerprints. Casper never did."

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Scully: "The right to free expression doesn't extend to murder."

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Curt Brunjes: "You work for them too, don't you?"
Mulder: "Who?"
Curt Brunjes: "You know who. You look like you might be one yourself." [Mulder laughs]

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Scully: "You haven't heard the rumours?"
Curt Brunjes: "What rumours?"
Mulder: "That Luria is back from the dead. That he's risen from his grave."
Curt Brunjes: "What kind of Jew trick is this?"
Mulder: "A Jew pulled it off two thousand years ago."

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Mulder: [to Curt Brujnes] "Bless you." [before leaving]

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Scully: "Maybe they came to desecrate the corpse as retribution for Tony Oliver's death."
Mulder: "This seems pretty redundant, doesn't it? Messing up somebody you've already killed? I think they were afraid."
Scully: "Afraid?"
Mulder: "Afraid that the man they hated enough to kill wasn't really dead."

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[Mulder removes a book from under the corpse's head]
Mulder: "What's this? A little bedtime reading?" [The book bursts into flames]

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Jacob Weiss: "It was self defence."
Mulder: "Hanging a man in self defence?"

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Scully: "Where are you going?"
Mulder: "See a man about a burning book."

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Mulder: "What is the magic word?"
Kenneth Ungar: "See these three letters — olif, mim, toof — creates the word emet."
Mulder: "I don't speak Hebrew. I don't know what that means."
Kenneth Ungar: "Truth. Emet means truth."