The X-Files hero Mulder is his usual obsessive self in “Paper Hearts,” and at first he seems completely fooled by Roche’s manipulations. He goes so far as to get Roche released to his custody so he can confirm he was the one who abducted Samantha.
But Mulder isn’t as convinced as he seems. He tricks Roche into giving away his con, but in the process the X-Files agent never gets close to any solid explanation as to how the Paper Hearts killer did what he did.
“I think I know what happened,” Mulder tells Roche. “Somehow, you got inside my dreams… I profiled you. I got inside your head. Maybe you got inside mine. Maybe some nexus or connection was formed between us and through that, you got access to my memories of my sister Samantha. And you used them against me for this.”
It is the single weakest, flimsiest attempt at even trying to maybe make a drive-by close to something next to another thing that maybe resembles an explanation.
Star Wars has “Somehow, Palpatine returned,” and The X-Files has “Paper Hearts,” and yet somehow it didn’t hurt fan reaction to the episode at all.
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