#samuel hartley

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Who's the better one-off character? (Round 3)

Bill Patterson (played by Kurtwood Smith in "Grotesque")

Samuel Hartley (in "Miracle Man")

Voting ended onAug 26, 2025

Bill Patterson: Who doesn't love a toxic mentor who gets lost in the sauce? (the sauce is criminal profiling)

Samuel Hartley: People think he's a messiah. He might have magical powers. He is in the middle of a crisis of faith. I find him incredibly compelling.

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

Grotesque: Agents Mulder and Scully join Mulder's former mentor, the FBI's chief profiler, on a case involving a serial killer who claims to be possessed by a demonic force. The case gets even more mysterious when the suspect is apprehended and the killings continue. Mulder gets involved more deeply than expected and Scully as well as Skinner are deeply concerned.

Miracle Man: Mulder and Scully travel to Tennessee to investigate the "Miracle Ministry" and its star attraction—a young man with the ability to heal people with his touch—when a person dies shortly after being healed.

Mod note: Hartley's actor's name has been omitted due to actor's personal issues and criminal convictions. For reasoning behind this policy, see here.

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Who's the better one-off character? (Round 1)

Karin Berquist (played by Melinda Culea in "Alpha")

Samuel Hartley ("Miracle Man")

Voting ended onDec 22, 2024

Karin Berquist: butch bitch, literally

Samuel Hartley: People think he's a messiah. He might have magical powers. He is in the middle of a crisis of faith. I find him incredibly compelling.

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Alpha: An Asian dog, called the Wanshang Dhole—thought to be extinct—is blamed for several killings. Mulder and Scully join an obstinate Sheriff, a seemingly eccentric hunter, and a reclusive canine expert to find it. However, there is more mystery to the expert than meets the eye.

Miracle Man: Mulder and Scully travel to Tennessee to investigate the "Miracle Ministry" and its star attraction—a young man with the ability to heal people with his touch—when a person dies shortly after being healed.

Mod note: Hartley's actor's name has been omitted due to actor's personal issues and criminal convictions. For reasoning behind this policy, see here.

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

Owen Lee Jarvis (played by Michael Berryman in "Revelations")

Samuel Hartley (in "Miracle Man")

Voting ended onMar 12, 2025

Owen Lee Jarvis: Brings up interesting themes of religion and sanctity

Samuel Hartley: People think he's a messiah. He might have magical powers. He is in the middle of a crisis of faith. I find him incredibly compelling.

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Revelations: Mulder tracks a series of religiously motivated homicides. Each of the eleven victims claims to have been stigmatic but all turned out to be frauds. When Mulder and Scully discover a little boy displaying inexplicable wounds of religious significance, they try to protect him from the killer they know will be coming.

Miracle Man: Mulder and Scully travel to Tennessee to investigate the "Miracle Ministry" and its star attraction—a young man with the ability to heal people with his touch—when a person dies shortly after being healed.

Mod note: Hartley's actor's name has been omitted due to actor's personal issues and criminal convictions. For reasoning behind this policy, see here.

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All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Miracle Man (1x18)

Miracles are everywhere, if one is only willing to see them. Small miracles happen every day– the trees regrow their leaves in the spring, a dark sky full of clouds opens up to release life-giving rain upon the earth. A child is conceived. 

Every child is a miracle, but one, just one of those children, the one who had been sent to earth by his father, had been the true gift to all of humanity. Carried and delivered by a young, unassuming woman, the virgin birth, this child was born to save all of God’s children from their sins. Through his sacrifice, this man who had started his life in a manger among the cows and sheep, delivered the human race to the kingdom of Heaven. 

From humble beginnings, Jesus Christ had led a life of virtue and humility. He cared for the sick, condemned the corrupt, and spread the word of his Holy Father. He created wine from mere water, he filled the fisher’s nets. 

He’d raised a man from the dead. 

Samuel didn’t know how he’d done it, but what he did know, even at such a young age, was that Christ had been with him when he’d laid his hand on Leonard Vance’s burnt flesh. He said the words he had been taught by his father. He felt the love of his Heavenly Father pour down into him. He felt Jesus with him. He held his power within his own hands, his gift of healing and life. 

Then the man had clasped his hand. His life had been restored.  “Hallelujah, Samuel,” his father said, proud but reserved. “Hallelujah.”

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Mulder: Samuel, I'm Agent Mulder. This is Agent Scully - from the FBI. Looks like you took quite a beating there. Samuel Hartley: Penance, Mr. Mulder. Scully: Some might call it a plain old bar brawl. Samuel Hartley: You know what they say - he giveth then he taketh away. A man gets too proud - sometimes it does him good to get the crap kicked out him. Saves God the trouble. Scully: The trouble of what? Samuel Hartley: Humbling the guilty sinner. Mulder: Guilty of murder? Samuel Hartley: Yes, sir. Mulder: How'd you do it, Samuel? Samuel Hartley: Apparently, my pride and weakness were an invitation to the Devil. I muddied the river of my own faith. Now my gift has been corrupted. Scully: So you're saying that you killed those people with a touch? Samuel Hartley: I've laid my hands on the ill. Given them health. I've healed the sick. I've even touched the dying and given them life. God has given me a special gift.

Episode 1x17 - Miracle Man