Oubliette

“Oubliette”
The X-Files episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 8
Guest stars	Tracey Ellis as Lucy Householder Michael Chieffo as Carl Wade Jewel Staite as Amy Jacobs
Written by	Charles Grant Craig
Directed by	Kim Manners
Production no.	3x08
Original airdate	November 17, 1995 (Fox)
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"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. Text taken from the Oubliette summary here.

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.

External links

• Oubliette at the Internet Movie Database
• Oubliette at TV.com

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