The X Files1993

Mulder:
Do you remember the first time you foresaw someone's death?

Clyde Bruckman:
1959.

Mulder:
What happened in 1959?

Clyde Bruckman:
Buddy Holly's plane crashed.

Scully:
You prognosticated Buddy Holly's death?

Clyde Bruckman:
Oh god no. Why would I want to do that? But I did have a ticket to see him perform the next night. Actually I was a bigger fan of the Big Bopper than Buddy Holly. Chantilly Lace, that was the song.

Mulder:
I'm not following.

Clyde Bruckman:
The Big Bopper was not supposed to be on the plane with Buddy Holly. He won the seat from somebody else by flipping a coin for it.

Mulder:
I'm still not following.

Clyde Bruckman:
Imagine all the things that had to occur, not only in his life, but in everybody else's, to arrange it so that on that particular night, The Big Bopper would be in a position, to live or die, depending on a flipping coin. I became so obsessed with that idea, that I gradually became capable of seeing the specifics of everybody's death.

Scully:
You know Mr. Bruckman, I'm not one who readily believes in that kind of thing, and if I was I still wouldn't believe *that* story.

Clyde Bruckman:
I know it sounds crazy but I swear it's true: I was a bigger fan of the Big Bopper than Buddy Holly.