The police photographer who knows when people will die is named Alfred Fellig. He was named after Usher "Arthur" Fellig, better known as "Weegee", a police photographer who became notorious in the 1930s and 1940s for taking gruesome crime scene photos. Like the eponymous character in "Tithonus", Weegee owned a police scanner, which often enabled him to get to crime scenes before the police. Unlike the X Files character, Weegee was not really psychic, although police gave him his nickname (a variation of "oujia") after joking that he was. See also the trivia section for
Road to Perdition (2002).
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