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Episodes: The Goldberg Variation
"The Goldberg Variation"
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August 1st 1999: Confirmed Cast List:
Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully
David Duchovny as Agent Fox Mulder
Willie Garson as Henry Weems
Marshall Manesh as Mr. Jank
Dom Magwili as Mr. Ng
Nicholas Worth as Mr. Haas
Tony Longo as Dominic
Ramy Zada as Joe Cutrona
Alyson Reed as Maggie Lupone
Shia La Beouf as Richie Lupone
Ernie Lee Banks as Maurice Albert
Bobby Moynahan as Paramedic
Chip Fogleman as Billy
Dominique DiPrima as Megan MacLean
May 8 1999: Credits:
Written By:
Jeffrey Bell
Directed By:
Tom Wright
Air Date: November 21 1999
December 10 1999: From Entertainment Weekly:
"Seeing as Mulder and Scully still can`t bring themselves to get lucky, they do the next closest thing - investigate the case of someone whose luck never seems to run out."
December 6 1999: From a FOX Press Realease:
"Mulder and Scully investigate a man upon whom fortune has smiled a few too many times, and witness first-hand the theory of cause and effect and the consequences that occur when coincidence, chance and luck collide.
"An artificial eye is the sole clue to the identity of a man who walks away from a 30-story fall after being pushed by mobsters, one of whom dies strangely after a second encounter."
December 3 1999: From Mara:
"An unusually lucky man presents an unusual opportunity to Mulder and Scully.
August 28 1999: From An Internal FOX memo, distributed all over the Internet:
"In an episode that is lighter in tone (a la last season's highly rated "Rain King"), MULDER and SCULLY investigate a man who seems to be just a little too lucky. Since a freak accident caused him to lose his eye, this otherwise normal gentleman has been 'cursed' with good luck. Cursed in the sense that although things always seem to go his way, unfortunately the cosmic order of the universe dictates that as lucky as he is, someone must therefore suffer in the reciprocal amount. Caught up in an elaborate real-life Rube Goldberg device, MULDER and SCULLY see first-hand the consequences that occur when luck, coincidence and chance collide to make an event happen just the right way. At its heart a morality tale tinged with emotion, the episodes explores the idea that in life we do not know whether an incident was good or bad until it is seen in a larger context."
August 26 1999: From Mara & Sea:
"Will air third this season. A man is cursed after losing an eye in an accident. Anything good that happens to him causes something bad to happen to someone else. Mulder and Scully see this relationship first hand."
"The story takes place in Chicago. And It involves these two HUGE Mafia-looking guys who drive up to a hospital with flowers in hand. They are looking for some wimpy lookin guy (I have seen this actor before but cannot place him) (the character appeared to be a witness to some crime) The Mafia guys approach him in the streets bearing a knife behind one of the Mob guys' back and scares him off onto traffic where a 'Shamrock Baked Goods' (I think) truck plows into him. That's where Mulder comes up to check his pulse underneath the truck. (DD was playing around, kicking the 'dead' guy between takes. It was funny. He was throwing trash at him and the crew); DD was wearing a blue suit and a blue dress shirt.
Then they moved to a 'Chicago' Apt complex where you see a newscaster reporting about the death. With Mulder and Scully coming. They had the apartments all dressed up with clothes lines stretching across the two buildings with laundry pinned to them."
August 25 1999: From Melissa Lee
"a la 'Rain King.' A man who is too lucky. Man has been 'cursed' since losing an eye in a freak accident. For every piece of good luck that comes his way, someone else must suffer. A real-life Rube Goldberg Device causes Mulder & Scully to see first-hand the consequences when luck, coincidence, and chance collide. A morality tale tinged with emotion. Basically, we don't know if something is good or bad until we see the whole picture. "
August 13 1999: From Autumn
"From what I've heard Episode 7X02 has something to do with finding a liver for a child. I know, it sounds odd to me too. More info as I get it."

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