Oubliette (The X-Files)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Oubliette


Caption =
Series = The X-Files
Season = 3
Episode = 8
Airdate = November 17, 1995 (Fox)
Production = 3x08
Guests = Tracey Ellis as Lucy Householder

Michael Chieffo as Carl Wade

Jewel Staite as Amy Jacobs
Writer = Charles Grant Craig
Director = Kim Manners

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Prev = The Walk
Next = Nisei"Oubliette" is the eighth episode of the third season of "The X-Files". When a young girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker miles away collapses on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she may be the key to help find the missing girl.

Trivia

* The title takes its name from the French term "oubliette", derived from the French "oublier", "to forget". It was used to refer to a holding chamber for prisoners who those in authority desired to forget. It was/is used to refer to a dungeon which was accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling. To exit an oubliette was impossible under any circumstances, without outside help.

* Holly Conway, a radio personality for The Beat 94.5, was in this episode.
* Tracey Ellis appears again as Audrey Pauley in the season 9-11 episode "Audrey Pauley".

External links

*imdb title|0751172|Oubliette
* [http://www.tv.com/the-x-files/oubliette/episode/547/summary.html Oubliette] at TV.com