[At both the beginning and ending of the episode, Mulder looks at aged photographs in the field where he died in a past life.]
[v.o.] At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, and tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago. And in that act a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest, so... Instinct with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely, but scattered, wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories, as now, when seems, once more, the goal in sight again.
(Robert Browning, "Paracelsus")
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