him." Themes The kidnapping of Amy shares several similarities with the abduction of Mulder's sister. Mulder's sister Samantha was abducted by aliens when Mulder was a child, before the timeline of The X-Files. Both Amy and Lucy are kidnapped and victimized by the same abuser, who represents the "logic of duplication". Wade treats both girls in virtually identical ways, kidnapping them and photographing them obsessively in the same manner. David Lavery in Deny All Knowledge asserts that Mulder is capable of seeing beyond "simple equivalents", caring about each individual girl separately. Lavery argues that this grants Mulder the ability to separate the case from his own personal experience with his sister. The scene that best exemplifies this trait is when Mulder attempts to comfort Amy's mother following her daughter's kidnapping. Mulder comments that he "knows how she feels", not because of what happened to his sister, but because he can identify with her general sense of loss. Thematic elements concerning the concept of "remote viewing"—the paranormal ability to perceive feelings from a distance—are later explored in greater detail in the fifth season installment "Mind's Eye". Broadcast and reception "Oubliette" was first broadcast on the Fox network on November 17, 1995. It earned a Nielsen rating of 10.2, with a 17 share, meaning that roughly 10.2 percent of all television-equipped households, and 17 percent of households watching television, were tuned in to the episode. It was watched by a total of 15.90 million viewers. In the UK it premiered the following year on BBC1 on October 17, 1996. "Oubliette" received mostly positive reviews from critics. Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club assessed it as a "B+", commenting that it "belongs to a subcategory of X-Files episodes that can often be more satisfying than the usual categories" due to the villain being a human being. She described it as "impressively dark and occasionally moving", and praised the cinematography, editing, and storytelling. However, she was critical of Ellis's performance as Lucy, finding that her characterization did not fit the character, and he noted that the installment fell into the trope of using women as victims. Paula Vitaris from Cinefantastique gave the program three and a half stars out of four. She felt that Mulder and Lucy's relationship was "believable" and, in contrast to VanDerWerff, thought that Ellis's performance was "perfect". Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical