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"Fire Walker, With Me" in which Special Agent Chester Desmond and Steve Nash, the basketball-playing schizophrenic mathematical genius martial arts expert appointed to head the Texas Rangers--the law enforcement agency, not the baseball team--have to fire the rogue Ranger Cord Walker because of his delusional belief that he was once married to Laura Palmer, a visiting alien murder victim whom Walker refuses to believe is dead, and in fact believes he is protecting from Nash and Desmond as he flees across Texas and Europe to protect her. Since Nash also believes that Laura still survives, and is in fact not only in contact with him, Nash, but is also in love with him, Agent Desmond has to request the assistence of Agent Mulder, who coincidentally believes that Laura Palmer killed his second cousin during a mistaken-identity bank robbery that barely touches on the series. While Nash and Desmond and the imaginary Laura pursue Walker and the other imaginary Laura through several museums and cathedrals in Europe as well as over ice fields in Antartica, a special relationship develops between Special Agent Desmond and some scantily-clad woman he met at a hamburger joint in Tyler, Texas in Episode Three--"The Girl at the Hamburger Joint and The Relics of Christ." While many critics have commented that this romance seems completely unrelated to the central storyline, Ron Howard defends the inclusion of the improbable partnership because Agent Desmond is just more sympathetic as a character if he is loved by the incongruous and gratuitous female co-stare, despite their three-decades age difference. "The audience craves the emotional fulfillment," Howard claims, "more than they desire plot consistency."
When asked for his opinion, David Lynch replied in guttural sounds and shrill whistles, which no one could interpret, though some pretended to.
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