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The X-Files: S03E03 (D.P.O.) | GIF Request: Scully and her sunglasses

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3x03: D.P.O.

Mulder and Scully investigate a lightning-related deaths in Oklahoma connected to an emotionally volatile young man.

If I had a nickel for every time Giovanni Ribisi played a weird kid in love with his much older teacher, I'd have two nickels

Baby Jack Black! He looks so different here

Oswald really likes to fuck with people, he almost kills someone with his lightning powers just to then save them??

He also randomly likes to kill cows with this power? That's fucked

Score: 5/10

Watch it? Nah, the guest stars are fun, but this isn't a super interesting episode.

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the x-files, "d.p.o." (1995)

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Who's the better one-off character? (Loser's Bracket Round 2)

Jade Blue Afterglow (played by Krista Allen in "First Person Shooter

Bart "Zero" Liquori (played by Jack Black in "D.P.O.")

Voting ended onSep 25, 2025

Jade Blue Afterglow: I liked to think she was more into Scully than Mulder. But that's just my opinion. Either way she looks great and references Xena.

Bart "Zero" Liquori: what a character name. also jack black.

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To jog your memory, here are the episodes they're from:

First Person Shooter: The Lone Gunmen summon Mulder and Scully to the headquarters of a video game design company when the new virtual-reality game, which the Gunmen helped design, is taken over by a bizarre female computer character whose power is much more than virtual.

D.P.O: Mulder is skeptical over a coroner's report regarding the fifth person to be struck by lightning in a small Oklahoma town. Their investigation into the latest death seems to point to the only person to have survived a lightning strike, an emotionally charged youth.

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The X-Files • D.P.O.

“Based on the signs of all the data that’s been gathered…

Darin Oswald is a perfectly normal, perfectly healthy kid. You believe that, Scully?… Neither do I.”

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you could do some serious damage someplace like that

The X-Files

Season 3, Episode 3 - D.P.O.

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All Eyes Lead to the Truth | D.P.O. (3x03)

Sometimes durin’ the lightning storms, Darin liked to listen to his Walkman while sittin’ under the big oak tree out back. No one ever told him that was dangerous, but after he was struck, everyone sure liked to tell him it was his own fault. 

Darin didn’t understand how he was expected to know stuff like that if no one ever bothered to tell him. It felt like people enjoyed callin’ him stupid so much that they never wanted to teach him nothin’ and spoil their fun.

He might’ve been a slow learner, but that didn’t mean he didn’t pick up on things.

Darin could look at a car and know the name and model. If he spent enough time on a video game, he could usually get a high score. He could tell when electricity kept actin’ up wherever he went that it might’ve had something to do with him.

The first few times it happened, he just thought the wiring in the house was goin’ to shit. But after several ‘power surges’ and ‘freak accidents’ happened in the span of a month, he saw a pattern. Something would set him off, then the electricity would act up.

He spent weeks practicing. Darin was pickin’ on his Ma there for a while, gettin’ her riled up so that she’d say somethin’ mean and make him mad. That never took long, but after a while, Darin realized it was better when he didn’t really get upset. When he did that, he couldn’t control the electricity very well. Instead, if he just let his emotions build up inside, and if he concentrated real hard, he could make stuff happen. He could make flashlights with no batteries turn on, he could start a car from twenty feet away, he could change the TV station like he was a human remote — he could do anything he wanted.

His power was too cool to keep to himself, but Darin knew he needed to practice before showin’ it to Zero. If he performed a bunch of magic tricks or hocus pocus mind games like the Stupendous Yappi, Zero would think he was lame. 

It had to be somethin’ cool.

After a while of tinkerin’ with his powers, Darin stayed after closing time at the video arcade and said he had a surprise. Zero was disappointed when the surprise wasn’t beer or bud, but after seein’ his name spelled out across all the machines, watchin’ a bolt of lightnin’ strike right outside the windows, and hearin’ any song he named come outta the jukebox — he was impressed.

“So… this was from you getting zapped in the field?” Zero asked, in between swigs of his soda.

“Yup,” Darin nodded. 

“That’s sick.”

“I’m like that fast guy from the Justice League,” Darin chuckled.

“Barry Allen became The Flash because he huffed too many fumes, dumbass,” Zero replied, always feelin’ the need to correct him.

“Still was lightning wasn’t it?” he spat back.

“Sure, dude.”

It was times like these he couldn’t tell when someone was just agreein’ with him ‘cause they didn’t wanna hear him talk no more or if they actually thought he was right. It made him feel stupid he couldn’t tell the difference, but he didn’t wanna feel even more stupid by asking and lettin’ someone else know he couldn’t tell.

“Whatever, man. My powers are way cooler than the Flash’s anyway. If I needed to go fast, I’d get a McLaren F1,” he shrugged.

“Well technically, the Flash has more than just super speed. He has super strength, time travel-”

Darin’s frustration built as Zero kept rambling. He hated feelin’ like an idiot. If he had the comic collection Zero did, he would’ve known all that too. His Ma refused to get him any when she realized he was mostly just lookin’ at the pictures. They wouldn’t have pictures in them if they didn’t want ya to look at ‘em.

Darin felt a surge of indignation burn through his body, and at the same time, the power in the arcade shut off. The suddenness of it all caused Zero to stop talking. When he realized what he’d done, he felt embarrassed for lashin’ out like that and quickly turned the machines back on.

“Hey, I’m real sor-” 

Darin faltered when he looked over at Zero. He was starin’ at Darin with a funny look on his face. It was the same face Zero made when their homeroom teacher caught them lookin’ at the March ‘93 Playboy. It was the same look he got whenever his Mama knocked on the door while they were smokin’ reefers. 

His friend was scared of him, and it made Darin feel powerful.

“Bet the Flash can’t do that, can he?” Darin laughed, every hair on his body standing straight.

It took Zero a moment to respond while he waited for his balls to drop, but when they did, he shook his head firmly, “N-no, dude. No way.”

Darin was grateful that his powers made him run hot, ‘cause Zero’s hands were trembling as they checked on the machines throughout the arcade. “S-so, are you going to show anyone else what you can do? I bet you could get a special on Jerry Springer.”

That brought a smile to his face. His Ma would probably keel over if she saw him standin’ next to Jerry. “I think I need to tell Mrs. Kiveat. I keep callin’ her every time I pick up the phone. I think I’m scarin’ her.”

“Have you tried maybe not doing that?”

“No shit!” he snapped, causing Frogger to hurl himself into the road. “It’s like the phone knows when I’m was thinkin’ about her.” Probably because he was always thinking about her. Maybe he couldn’t stop it because his love for her was the one thing he couldn’t really control.

With his new powers, he could have anything, but all Darin wanted was Mrs. Kiveat.

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✨"D.P.O.” Fan Fiction Reading List✨

D.P.O. by @leiascully 

How Mulder and Scully came to go to Oklahoma.

D.P.O. by @scullywolf 

“At least let’s go see where Jack Hammond was killed. Maybe we’ll find something we both can agree on.”

D.P.O. by @30xf

Musings of a DKS by Kipler (Fillyjonk) for Alison and Heather

I wrote this a very long time ago and a friend digitized it for me. How cool that you can resurrect a cassette tape into a fan video!

Gold and Silver by @dreamingofscully

Scully does something spontaneous to honor her sister’s memory.

it all leads back to you by @toboddly

scully is grieving the loss of her sister. mulder doesn't know how to help, so she asks.

Bridges and Buffers by @theresanemman

Missy’s apartment is barren of all her personal touches now. Dana and Charlie sit on the floor, backs against the couch, and pass a cigarette between them, as well as a bottle of booze. Neither of them bothered to check what it was.

That's the Ticket by @smalldisbeliever

They’ve made it kind of a tradition to visit arcades.

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