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O. Hi there everyone, and welcome
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back for episode 8 of Revisiting The X-Files, where each episode
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I will be working my way through the 11 series, 2 movies, and
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several books that make up The X-Files.
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And I apologize for the delay in this episode.
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It's been a bit difficult getting around to actually
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producing this episode rather than actually watching The
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X-Files episodes themselves. So for those of you returning
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for this next episode, thanks once again for being here.
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And if you are a first time listener, well I hope this is
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not only enjoyable for you, but perhaps piques your interest in
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a once great TV show format. Here is that I'll be working my
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way through the entire show and several other media as we go,
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and for the most part we'll cover 5 episodes of this series
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in each podcast episode. But firstly, I'll go through the
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feedback on the previous episode and there's a lot less than when
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we first started, which is generally true of the
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listenership, I would suggest. But I'm going to cover a couple
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of the last episodes as some people were a little bit delayed
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in leaving their actual feedback.
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So here we go. Jeff from Florida, a long time
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listener. He gave several tweets on X, so
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I'll just read through what the basis of those were.
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On the last episode of The X-Files, which dealt with the
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final five episodes of Series 1, he says Lazarus.
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Classic episode. Duchovny shows his growth as an
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actor here. The plot's intriguing, and I
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remember watching this as a kid and fucking loving it. 4.5 out
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of five. A young at heart.
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A bit more horror elements this one, and I like it. 4 out of
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five EBE back to the Aliens arc after spending the last couple
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of Monsters of the Week episode. Only really notable thing here
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is the lone gunman make their first appearance.
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I'd forgotten how early the Cigarette Smoking Man and the
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lone gunman became a part of the show. 3 out of five Miracle Man.
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I love seeing people who prey on others using faith and they get
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their deserved punishment. This one was a bit of a let down
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though. Three out of five That's quite
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true for me too. And Shapes 30 years ago, 5 out
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of five today, three out of five.
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Probably also pretty true. Then we get into these last five
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episodes. That was the previous five
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episodes. Darkness Falls classic episode.
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This had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. 6 out of
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five, which is pretty high-ranking.
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Tombs two in a row, absolutely fantastic.
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Six out of five. I thought when people are going
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to give stuff. 6 out of five. Born again, great Sabbath album.
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Disturbing the Priestess. Ah yes, I like this episode.
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That's one for all you metal listeners out there.
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Four out of five. Roland, a solid, enjoyable but
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somewhat dated. 4 out of five. Fair enough.
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Yes. And the Ehlenmeyer flask.
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Hell yeah, one of the best of the series. 6 out of five.
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Can't disagree with any of that. Then we've got general review
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good. The episode reviews have gotten
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better and better and Bill has really found the groove.
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It helps that Chris Carter also found the groove of the show.
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Very kind of you, Jeff. Probably Chris Carter may be
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better off for me. And then we had the episode
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where I interviewed my daughter Jessica on her favorite episodes
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and Jeff says, OMG, when Jessica said can I swear on your podcast
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dad, I actually thought she was going to drop the most Aussie of
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Aussie C words. I won't use it here.
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You all know what I'm talking about, which made me laugh a
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lot. So yes, thank you Jeff, as
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always for your reviews and your continued support of the show.
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Matt from Kansas City is another who's been supporting this all
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the way from the start. And he said, good day Bill.
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Nice to hear the Susan wrap up and Luke and I enjoyed watching.
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Been listening to your thoughts, but Disney where we are
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streaming, decided to lock all EPS in the movies and send it to
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Hulu, which we don't have. We are moving into Quantum Leap
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to fill the void. I'll still look forward to
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hearing thoughts on season 2 and beyond.
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Well, I hope Matt, that you've found a way to watch from season
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2 onward with Luke because he would be missing out.
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And certainly anything I have to say on this program will not be
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anywhere near as good as actually watching it.
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And another fan who has been with us since the very start,
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Michael from Melbourne. Hard to argue are rankings at
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the end bill, particularly the ones in the South category.
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Earl Meyer Flask would be my number one as well.
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James Wong and Glenn Morgan were excellent writers for The
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X-Files. Really looking forward to season
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2 as there are some absolute classics which is very much
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appreciated. He also said on the episode that
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I did with Jess, it was wonderful to hear Bill and
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Jessica talk about Jessica's favorite episodes.
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Always great to hear that different generations share a
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love of something in common. Humbug and Anasazi are right up
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near the top for me as well. So thank you Michael, and thank
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you Matt, and thank you Jeff. And I appreciate all of your
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comments and your support of the show and of course, everybody
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else who listens to these episodes.
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So if you'd like to share your own thoughts, I'll give you the
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contact details once again at the end of this episode.
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And now it is time to tread carefully into the next great
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chapter, the beginning of Series 2 of The X-Files.
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So here we go with Season 2 Episode 1 titled Little Green
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Men and this was written by one of the major pairings from
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season 1, Glenn Morgan and James Wong and is directed by the
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number one director David Nutter.
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And I think the great thing about this episode is it brings
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back a lot of great memories. We open up where we see Mulder
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and Scully had been split up, The X-Files has been shut down,
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Mulder is on electronic surveillance, and he has a
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plethora of sunflower seeds surrounding him in a nice season
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1 callback. I love the part of his character
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and it doesn't get shown enough for me.
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Scully's back teaching at the FBI Academy and we initially see
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the two meet up because Scully uses the secret sign, which is a
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note on Samantha's photo on Mulder's desk.
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Now, when we see them meet each other in the car park, Gillian
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Anderson is very obviously pregnant in her facial features,
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and you can see immediately the difference in her from the end
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of Season 1 and to the start of Season 2.
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And of course, as we go forward, she's going to miss some of this
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series because of the birth of her first daughter, Piper.
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And that's how this first part of the series actually trends in
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order to make sure that she has the right writing for her
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character so that she can actually go and give birth.
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Now, there are a number of important scenes in this episode
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which show where our main characters are at.
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This one in the parking garage shows Mulder now second guessing
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himself and thinking that perhaps he has wasted his life
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up to this point in regards to his work.
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And there's a great line from him where he says in reply to
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Scully saying, think of all the things you've seen.
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His quote is seeing is not enough.
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I should have had some hard evidence by this point.
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I learned that from you, and that's a really important part
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of the growing relationship between Mulda.
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Oh, sorry. Because Mulda has learned from
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Scully's part of the partnership where she's always looking for
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the evidence and the scientific side of things, whereas he isn't
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always looking for that. He wants the truth so bad that
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solid evidence to prove what he has seen hasn't necessarily been
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a priority. So they're both learning from
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each other in that regard as well.
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There's the introduction here of the abduction of Samantha, where
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it's retroactively brought to us on the screen.
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We finally see what Molda has had in his mind that hasn't been
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shown before, and this is the first time that we've actually
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seen what Molda believes happens with the abduction of Samantha
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when he was a kid. Molda meets with Senator Richard
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Matheson, the first time he's been seen in the series.
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But he's obviously been a patron for Molda's work with The
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X-Files. And the great thing is that he's
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named after the wonderful science fiction author Richard
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Matheson, who wrote much of the original Twilight Zone series
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along with Rod Serling. And it's great that he is
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memorialized in The X-Files by having this US senator named
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after him. I think it's fantastic.
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So the senator directs Mulder to the abandoned radio telescope
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array in Puerto Rico, where he has been informed there has been
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activity suggesting he has 24 hours to find the evidence
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himself before the government agents will arrive.
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So, of course, he's off and he disappears from his surveillance
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and no one knows where he is, including Scully, but she's on
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the case to track him down. And she, of course, is being
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followed and tailed and tagged because apparently government
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operators weren't able to be good enough to track down where
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he's gone either. For people who are supposedly
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creating a conspiracy, they are pretty pointless when it comes
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to general field work. And not only does Scully find
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his pseudonym on a playlist, the name of one of his heroes, but
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then she can give those telling her the slip as well.
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So it it just, it seems very convenient.
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Meanwhile in Puerto Rico, Mulder has found his way to the
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abandoned site and amongst the equipment he finds that signal
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and information is coming back to them from the Voyager
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spacecraft. He also discovers a Puerto Rican
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man, Jorge, who can't speak English but claims to have seen
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an alien by drawing it on the wall, which of course is never
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going to end well for Jorge. Don't see aliens.
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You'll either die or you'll be abducted, and I'm not sure which
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one is better for Jorge. It's the dying of fright bit
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that happens, especially if you're going to run into the
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woods when an alien spacecraft is hovering around.
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Instead, Mulder blacks out as a misfiring gun hits the door as
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the door opens, and the next thing you see is Scully has
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arrived just in time to find him and then escape together.
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Because the Blue Berets and the UFO retrieval team have arrived
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and Mulder and Scully just have to escape with what little they
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have. But aha, who would have thought?
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By the time they return to Washington, the tapes that
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Mulder has been able to bring back seem to have been wiped
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blank because of the power surge during the storm.
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What? Still no physical evidence?
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That's unbelievable. Once Mulder returns, we have the
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scene in Skinner's office where the Smoking Man is present once
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again. Skinner berates Mulder, saying
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that he abandoned his post and just disappeared.
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Mulder counters by yelling that he had enough evidence already
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to prosecute his people weeks ago, and that he's obviously
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just being kept there so that he's out of the way.
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But once Moulder explains that his phones have been monitored
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and tapped and that he has been under surveillance, Skinner
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understands that there's more to this.
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Skinner's glance at the Smoking Man tells him all he needs to
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know about what's going on, so Skinner throws him out of the
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office and without further admonishment, calmly sends
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Mulder back to his investigation, saying I think we
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need more evidence, and then sends him back to his
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wiretapping to continue on. So basically, it's out of sight,
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out of mind. It's a great scene, not very
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well explained here, that suggests that although Skinner
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has his orders from above, he's still willing to fight for what
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he believes is right. So what do we get from this
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episode? Mulder has had his revelation in
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Puerto Rico. He uses his tape player to have
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a heart to heart with himself. But in talking to Scully about,
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he's losing his faith in what he's been following, that he's
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surrounded by all the evidence here, and yet he has no
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evidence, which is a really good line as well because it's quite
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true. He's surrounded by evidence in
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Puerto Rico that proves to him that there is extraterrestrial
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life and that they're trying to make contact.
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But in the long run, he has no evidence at all because it's all
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circumstantial. He hasn't seen aliens, he
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doesn't have any proof of existence of aliens, and he's
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still questioning himself. However, that journey has him
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believing again in a positive way when he's back at his
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surveillance job at the end with nothing to show, he says, I
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still have my work. I still have you, Scully, and I
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will continue to look for it it. Should be right here.
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The entire tape is blank. You know an electrical surge in
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the outlet during the storm may have degaussed everything,
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erasing the entire tape. You still have nothing.
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I may not have The X-Files, Scully, but I still have my
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work. I still have you.
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I still have myself. What this episode explores is
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that from the period from the end of Season 1 to where we are
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now, Mulder has had a lot on his mind.
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Deep Throat was murdered, The X-Files closed, and he's
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questioning the decisions he's made.
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He's questioned where he is in his life.
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And yet, by the end of the episode, he's revitalized to the
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point that he knows that he's heading in the right direction,
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that he won't be shut down, that he won't allow this to defeat
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him, and that he will find a way to continue to discover the
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truth. So in a way, he's back.
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His character has been built back up again, and he has a new
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lease on life. So this is a great episode.
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This is a heavyweight episode because we have David Nutter as
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director, we have Morgan and Wong as the writers again, and
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they produced a terrific first up episode.
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It does everything in the episode except what you know,
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you'd expect Little Green Men is the title, and you would expect
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that they're going to expose more aliens and bring back The
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X-Files. And what it actually does is
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have a good look at Mulder and his character and have himself
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looking inwardly about himself. And I think that's the most
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important part of this episode, that it's specially or
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specifically written for Mulder to question himself and his
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beliefs. And that, as Morgan and Wong
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apparently said, one of the main themes of the episode is that
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it's the idea that we might all have to fight our own little
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green men and carry on. And I think that's exactly what
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they do in this episode. So for me, this is a four out of
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five episode. I think in the long run, it's a
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good way to start off the second series after the events of the
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first series as we move on to episode 2 of Season 2.
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Called The Host, written by Chris Carter and directed by
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Daniel Sackheim. And after the introspection into
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Mulder's mindset in the first episode back, there is a little
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bit more here as well. We start off on an old Russian
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frigate and see poor old Dmitri. He's always the one who gets
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these crappy jobs of having to find the blockages in the worst
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places on the boat. Well, it's the last time you'll
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ever have to do that. Because as our mystery monster
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of the week arrives and Dmitri gets sucked down into the water,
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never to be seen again, that could be the IT.
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Or is he because Mulder is sent down for sewers to check out a
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body that's washed up, one that on 1st inspection he believes is
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just a gangland hit, And he then storms off, no pun intended, and
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arrives in Skinner's office and unloads his frustrations with
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his assignments on him. He thinks it's a setup to make
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him look foolish, but does Skinner know more than he is
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letting on? Has he sent Mulder?
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Because there looks as though there may be more to this than
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it appears. So it has to be said that just
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like Mulder's dead body, there is more to this episode than
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there appears on the surface. There are interesting
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developments in front of and behind the camera.
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Mulder's frustration brings Scully back to try and help out
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in this case after he suggests he is considering leaving the
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FBI, not only to still be involved in work with him, but
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no doubt to keep his spirits up. There is a great extended
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autopsy scene giving Scully the room she needs to exemplify how
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important her character is. It is during that that she
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discovers the fluke within the carcass of the washed up Dmitri.
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This is followed by an attack of another man in the sewer who
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exhibits a bite mark on his back that strangely lines up with the
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bite mark of the fluke, but on a far larger scale.
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What could that possibly mean? The discovery of the fluke man
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in the processing plant tends to answer that question, but not
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how it exists. Skinner, somewhat laughingly,
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decides he wants to prosecute the fluke man for murder now. 2
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After the death of the second attacker in the shower, which
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sees Skinner admit to Mulder that this should have been an X
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file, and Mulder telling Skinner that if he had not shut them
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down then they may have been able to prevent that death with
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Skinner simply replying. We all take our orders from
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somewhere, Mulder. There's no way you'll prosecute
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this. The Justice Department has asked
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the suspect be transferred to an institution for a full
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psychiatric evaluation. This is not a man.
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It's a monster. You can't put it in an
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institution. What do you do with an Agent
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Mulder? Put it in a zoo and kill two
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people 2. The sanitation worker who was
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attacked was found dead in his home as a result of his
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injuries. You know, you had a pair of
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agents that could have handled a case like this.
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Agent Scully and I might have been able to save that man's
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life, but you shut us down. I know there should have been an
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X file. We all take our orders from
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someone Asian Mulder. That'll be all.
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Of course in trans, in transporting, sorry, the fluke
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man in an ambulance. He escapes after killing
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everyone and conveniently finds a section of portaloos that he
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hides in until the tanker truck arrives to suck out the contents
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and take it back to the sewage plant.
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You'd think at the scene the destination was obvious.
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Perhaps for Molder, it was the phone call that came as soon as
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he was trying to connect the dots.
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It's from a mysterious benefactor who has already
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called him once in this episode, and this time he says very
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clearly. Success in your work is
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imperative, Mr. Mulder. The reinstatement of The X-Files
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must be undeniable. Anyway, the chase resumes back
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at the sewage plant, with Mulder and the supervisor of the plant
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heading back into the sewer. Of course, in the chase for the
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fluke man, old mate falls in and is immediately attacked.
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So of course Mulder jumps in too.
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I mean, is this ballsy or idiotic?
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I mean, he saves him, we think, because we don't see how he
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worked out after Mulder sees the fluke man trying to get into the
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pipe that leads to the ocean and Mulder closing the gate, that
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severs him in two nicely shorn pieces.
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Which means, as per the previous two victims.
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Does that mean that the supervisor now has a fluke in
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his liver? Is he doomed to die?
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We don't know, and it doesn't get followed up later on.
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The episode concludes with Scully meeting Mulder in a park
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bench discussing the day's events.
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Scully shows off her research, mostly drawn from a magazine
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that was surreptitiously left under her office door, which
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shows the result of nuclear contamination from Chernobyl on
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life forms, new life forms that are being formed as a result and
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suggesting that the Fluke Man is a quasi human and able to
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reproduce asexually. Mulder, nature didn't make this
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thing we did, is the line she she says.
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Mulder shares with Scully his short phone conversation
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regarding The X-Files before pronouncing we have a friend in
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the FBI. I think this is a really well
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written episode, one that in the plot itself showcases the
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growing pressure in certain quarters for the return of The
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X-Files. The episode acts as the next
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piece of the puzzle in the lineage towards what we as
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viewers will see as the inevitable reopening of The
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X-Files. Even though this is just a
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monster of the week episode, invoking The X-Files, as both
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Skinner does in his office conversation with Mulder over
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the case and with the mysterious phone caller whom we will come
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to know as X, shows that this is very much on the radar of
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several sections of the FBI. What are the reasons behind this
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desire? Skinner would only have been
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thinking of unexplained phenomenon such as the Fluke
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Man, and that The X-Files department would have been
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better equipped to handle this investigation from the outset.
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It also shows that Skinner is open to the idea that The
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X-Files is an important part of the FBI.
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But just what reason does X and those he is tied up with want
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The X-Files reopened for the same as Skinner or for more
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nefarious means? Is it government conspiracies of
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a different nature? Alien conspiracies?
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They're only a very small side part of this episode.
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It is the beginning of the evolving storyline of the second
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season. In those few words.
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Chris Carter's comments on this episode are interesting, he
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said. I was in a funk when I wrote
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that episode. We were coming back from hiatus
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and I was trying to find something more interesting than
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just the flute man. I was irritated at the time, and
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I brought my irritation to Mulder's attitude.
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Basically, he had become fed up with the FBI.
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They had given him what he felt was a low assignment, which was
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sending him into the city after a dead body.
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But lo and behold, he finds that this is a case that, for all
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intents and purposes, is an X file.
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It's been given to him by man he's never looked at as an ally
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in Skinner, so it's an interesting establishing of a
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relationship between the two. Just so so, let's check out the
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PSA. The problem, of course, is a
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body discovered in a sewer that leads to a much bigger evolving
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problem in regards to a new life form.
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The solution comes as the agents.
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Agents even track and discover the Flute Man and cut off its
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escape. Great Punning Bill the
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Answerless comes from the apparent continued living of the
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Flute Man at the end of the episode.
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And if so, then what will happen next?
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Nothing is the answer because it's the end of the episode.
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For me, the episode ranks as a 4.5 out of five.
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It nicely builds the feeling that The X-Files will soon be
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reopening while giving us a Monster of the week episode that
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traverses both parts of The X-Files universe.
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It also does well in showing that Mulder is still conflicted
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as to where his future lies, that Scully is desperate not to
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lose Mulder from both her professional and personal life,
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and that forces are moving behind the scenes to that end as
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well. Not quite a 5 out of five, but
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very, very good. So we have the next bloody
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episode from season 2 being episode 3 titled Blood.
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This was written by Glenn Morgan and James Wong from a story
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written by Da Da Da Da Darren Morgan.
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Yes, he's arrived. And yes, Darren is the brother
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of Glenn and he was also the man who played the fluke man in our
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previous episode. And Darren will become more
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prominent and influential as a writer as we continue our
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journey through the depths and episodes of The X-Files.
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Let's begin. And we've got our typical down
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and out loser in Ed who's been working for the post office
27:04
punching in post codes and the sort and he's been laid off.
27:08
You can finish at the end of the week though, just work at the
27:10
end of the week. So he then he goes back to work
27:13
and he gets a paper cut as he returns to work and he sees on
27:16
his screen, instead of numbers coming up, the word kill.
27:21
And then it says kill him and then it says kill them all.
27:27
And then that cues, of course, Metallica's The Four Horsemen.
27:31
No, sorry, that's more heavy metal stuff that no one else
27:34
really needs to know about. It just cues the X file theme
27:37
music. Anyway, so we moved to a
27:41
building's elevator where a man has seemingly gone crazy and
27:45
killed five other passengers in the elevator with his bare
27:48
hands. So the cops have been called in
27:51
and they've called in someone from Behavioral science section
27:54
of the FBI. And guess who that is?
27:57
Oh, my goodness, it's Agent Mulder.
27:59
And it just so happens that he's exactly the kind of person that
28:03
they need for this job. His immediate investigation
28:07
notices the screen in the elevator is smashed and the
28:10
perpetrator has a substance caught in his finger nails,
28:13
which is then sent away for analysis.
28:16
Meanwhile we see Ed again at the ATM and he sees blood on his
28:21
fingers again and more of the taunts on the ATM screen pushing
28:25
him to act, from which he runs from the scene.
28:29
So it's blood that is obvious that it triggers Ed from the
28:34
very start. We then see the character of
28:37
Missus Mcroberts who goes to pick up her car from the
28:40
mechanic and has a similar experience, although it's her
28:44
fear of being raped that pushes her to beat his poor old
28:49
mechanic to death and then drive off with her car.
28:53
So of course Mulder works out that she was there, and he and
28:56
Sheriff Spencer have worked out that she is the person whose car
29:00
was being worked on. And so they head over to her
29:03
house and Mulder almost charms his way into his own death
29:09
before Missus Mcroberts gets taken down by the sheriff.
29:13
Even though Mulder realizes that they need her alive to solve
29:16
what is going on, he's almost on the brink of working it out.
29:21
And then she's shot dead. Anyway, Scully arrives.
29:26
Hello, Scully. And she discovers a link between
29:28
what's going on and with pesticide that is being used in
29:33
the town. But the exciting news is that
29:37
Mulder heads off to see the Lone Gunman, their second appearance
29:42
on this show, and initially if watching for the first time,
29:47
this is a great moment to have them back after their one
29:50
appearance in season 1. The nerdy and conspiracy theory
29:54
conversation that ensues is a delight to a nerd, at least with
29:59
quotes like you haven't read our August edition of our
30:02
newsletter, To which Mulder replies no.
30:05
That must have been when I got my latest edition of Celebrity
30:09
Skin. In our April edition of The Lone
30:12
Gunman, we ran an article on the CI as new CCD TH2138 fiber optic
30:17
lens micro video camera small enough to be placed on the back
30:20
of a family. Imagine being one of those flies
30:23
on the wall of the Oval Office. Been there, done that.
30:27
That is a Eurasian cluster fly. They infest vegetation like
30:31
apples or cherries and can inflict a great deal of damage
30:34
to crops. This one's probably been
30:36
irradiated to control propagation.
30:38
Or agents of competing South American agricultural
30:40
corporations posing as Franklin City employees are releasing
30:44
fertile flies to destroy the crop.
30:47
Nope, this bug's been naked. It was a fine effort, though.
30:53
Have you ever come across this chemical compound?
30:56
LSDM. Obviously you haven't read our
31:00
August edition of TLG. Oh, I'm sorry, boys.
31:03
It arrived the same day as my subscription to Celebrity Skin.
31:09
Frohickey, of course, is more interested in the location of
31:11
Mulder's good looking partner. The Gunman, though, fill in
31:15
Mulder about how DDT was initially spread by crop dusters
31:18
in the past and that the side effects weren't known for
31:21
decades. So the suspicion is that what is
31:24
happening in this town has something to do with the
31:26
chemicals being sprayed to protect their crops, and the way
31:29
to discover that is for Mulder to get sprayed by them while
31:34
covertly trying to see it happening.
31:37
Good one, folks. But even as Scully rules out
31:40
poisoning from the spray, Mulder looks at the TV and he's
31:44
confronted with what he believes are subliminal messages.
31:48
And so he works out that it's all about the subliminal
31:51
messages and that people who suffer from phobias, such as
31:54
seeing blood or being claustrophobic in an elevator or
31:58
a fear of rape, are having these fears heightened by the
32:01
chemicals being sprayed on the crops.
32:04
And they're seeing the subliminal messages as a result,
32:06
and they're acting upon them, which is to kill.
32:11
However, we've got to work out, was this in their heads?
32:15
Was it an illusion or was it a real government experiment, as
32:19
Mulder believes it could be? In order to test out the blood
32:24
of all the possibly infected, the town enacts a free
32:27
cholesterol test for residents in order to rule out any further
32:30
murders. But Ed, who of course is scared
32:33
of blood, is driven to take his rifle and start shooting at
32:37
people. When the agents turn up at his
32:40
house, they discover Ed has smashed all of these screens as
32:42
well and Mulder works out that it is blood that sets Ed off.
32:46
Once they find him and Mulder confronts him, he talks about
32:51
blood being the end result of any killing, which scares Ed
32:54
into dropping his weapon. And then he's taken away in the
32:57
ambulance for what 1 suspects is a very long stay in hospital.
33:02
And there's a great line where Malda says I want full and long
33:06
access to interview him. And Sheriff Spencer
33:09
apologetically says what good would it do?
33:12
You already know more about what happened to him than he does.
33:17
And the final scene sees Moldov phoning Scully, but he sees
33:20
written on the screen of the phone.
33:22
All done, followed by bye bye. So the mystery deepens all too
33:29
late. So this story, as I said, is by
33:33
Darren Morgan, and it was written by Glenn and James
33:37
Morgan. And the episode's fine.
33:40
It has some good moments, but it doesn't hold much tension
33:43
throughout. We all know what's going on
33:46
through the story because of the way the film's episode plays
33:49
out. It's not as if we expect
33:51
anything is going to happen to Mulder.
33:54
It is interesting that we had a cop in Sheriff Spencer, who was
33:57
involved all the way through the story, who was with Mulder for
34:00
the whole episode, more or less as a quasi partner, and he was
34:05
the one who actually believed what Mulder was saying and
34:07
helped him out. He even convinced the mayor that
34:10
he needed to have the spraying stopped and the blood tested.
34:14
So it was good for a change to have a competent member of the
34:17
Constabulary contributing in the story.
34:21
So we check out the episodes. PSA.
34:24
We have the problem, which is the fact that this town had had
34:26
no murders in over 30 years and then suddenly 22 people have
34:31
been killed by 7 different people in the matter of five
34:34
months. The solution is that it's
34:37
obviously a toxin that is being sprayed on the plants to try and
34:40
keep them alive because that's the lifeblood of the town and
34:44
that's causing a reaction, an LSD reaction of the phobias of
34:48
the people that it's affected. The answerless comes down to the
34:51
fact that we're not really sure then whether it's an illusion in
34:55
these people's heads or whether it is a real government
34:58
experiment, because Mulder can see that text on his phone at
35:02
the end. Now, he's been affected by the
35:05
actual toxins, so that may well be that he's hallucinating that
35:09
as well. But is it the case?
35:12
We don't know. And I think that all that kind
35:15
of thing in the episode is handled quite well.
35:18
We don't really know by the end if it's an illusion or whether
35:21
it's an actual government conspiracy.
35:23
And we're not given a definitive answer at the end.
35:26
So that is what keeps the episode interesting.
35:29
I still enjoy this episode. I wouldn't say it's an
35:32
outstanding episode where you're on the edge of your seat or
35:35
filled with tension about what could happen next, but it has
35:38
some good story elements that keep the episode moving.
35:42
I enjoyed the fact that the sheriff being involved all the
35:45
way through as Mulder's sidekick in the absence of Scully.
35:48
And it was great to have the lone gunman reintroduced into
35:52
X-Files law because in the long run, when we were watching this
35:55
through the first time when it was first released, that led us
35:58
to believe that perhaps the lone gunman could continue to be a
36:02
part of the show. So overall, for me, this is a
36:07
week 4. We are about to enter the realm
36:15
of the sleep deprived with episode 4 of Season 2 titled
36:20
Sleepless, which was written by Howard Gordon without his usual
36:25
partner Alex Ganza, and it was directed by Rob Bowman.
36:29
And as much as this is an interesting story and episode in
36:33
its own right, it really is memorable for the first sighting
36:37
of two very important characters in the Xfiles mythology.
36:42
And I do want to discuss that. And those characters are the
36:47
mysterious X who we heard on 2 separate phone calls during the
36:51
episode, the host, and of course, the first sighting of
36:55
the great man himself. The man that makes The X-Files
36:59
so much more fun, Alex Krycheck. So first let's discuss the story
37:05
of the episode and then circle back around to this.
37:09
The episode opens with Doctor Grissom in his apartment and he
37:12
discovers fire is encroaching on his front door.
37:15
He calls the fire department, but the fire overcomes him and
37:18
he dies of asphyxiation. He dies of asphyxiation as the
37:23
fire is arrived to find no sign of smoke or fire anywhere.
37:29
Had he imagined it? How did he die?
37:31
And who was that mysterious guy on the stairwell with the scar
37:35
on the back of his neck? Perhaps only time will tell.
37:40
Mulder receives anonymous information via a newspaper and
37:43
the 911 call made by Grissom, and he decides to take on this
37:49
case, trying to convince Skinner it is worthy of investigation.
37:54
And it is here that we meet the rather green and clean cut agent
37:58
Alex Krycheck, who had already opened a file on the case and is
38:03
thus tied to Mulder, whether Mulder likes it or not.
38:08
But come on, he seems like he's keen and competent.
38:11
Everything should work out fine, right?
38:14
But going it alone doesn't sit well with young Alex, who seems
38:18
like he's ambitious from the outset.
38:21
So the two travel back to Quantico to see Scully, who says
38:24
that Grissom's body showed no signs of a fire, but yet seems
38:29
to have biologically believed it was burning.
38:32
Now that seems a bit X fily, doesn't it?
38:35
Then another victim turns up, this one gunned down without any
38:39
outer impairments being visible, only inner contusions.
38:45
Mulder meets up with a mysterious informant named X,
38:50
who gives him information on a secret military project that
38:53
Grissom performed where he eradicated the need for sleep
38:56
through lobotomy. X provides him with the name of
39:00
Salvatore Mottola, a squad member who was mistakenly
39:03
reported as killed in action. Augustus Cole is identified as
39:08
the man involved in the deaths, but also a man who has developed
39:11
external abilities, the ability to project his conscience after
39:17
24 years of not sleeping, Mulder and Krawcheck meet with Mattola
39:22
soon afterwards, who says that he has not slept in 24 years due
39:25
to the experiment. He reveals that another
39:28
researcher with the squad, Doctor Girardi, was the one who
39:31
actually performed the lobotomies.
39:34
Trying to get to Girardi first, Cole distracts the agents by
39:38
faking him shooting Girardi. He instead kidnaps him and holds
39:43
him hostage. Mulder and Krychek find Gerardi,
39:46
who is injured, and Cole, who is ready to kill himself.
39:50
Crychek, believing Cole is holding a gun instead of a Bible
39:54
he is actually holding, shoots him and Cole dies of his wounds.
40:00
And what a surprise, all of Mulder and Scully's files on the
40:04
case are gone. The episode ends with a meeting
40:08
of three men, one of whom we know.
40:11
Yes, it's the Smoking Man. For the first time not sitting
40:15
behind Skinner in his office and the discussion is over the files
40:19
stolen from Mulder and how he may have gotten them.
40:23
And then making his entrance into the conversation is Alex
40:28
Krychek, whose statement is one that will send shock waves
40:31
through the series as he is revealed to be a man with
40:35
differing loyalties than expected, and his quote is
40:39
reassigning them to other sections seems only to have
40:42
strengthened their determination.
40:44
Scully's a problem, a much larger problem than you
40:48
described, which is counted by The Smoking Man.
40:52
Every problem has a solution. And the episode ends and a
40:57
collective whoa from the watching audience as The X-Files
41:02
takes a giant leap forward. And yes, it is this episode that
41:08
kicks this season into another orbit.
41:11
Not by the episode itself, which is OK, but from that final scene
41:16
and what it means going forward. So the two biggest pieces of the
41:22
episode are the introduction of the two new characters.
41:26
The scene introducing Stephen Williams as X is brilliant.
41:31
It references Deep Throat only as the man we both knew, and
41:36
sets in place a different set of circumstances for Mulder's new
41:39
informant. 1 He makes clear from the start we both know what
41:44
happened to him, and I'm not willing to have that happen to
41:47
me. Who are you?
41:52
Who I am is irrelevant. Why are you trying to help me?
42:00
You think I want to be here, Agent Mulder, I don't want to be
42:05
here. What is this?
42:09
Data from? A top secret military project
42:12
born of the idea that sleep is the soldiers greatest enemy.
42:19
Grissom was conducting sleep deprivation experiments on Paris
42:22
Island. Not deprivation, Eradication.
42:27
Why? Why else?
42:29
To build a better soldier. Sustained wakefulness dulls
42:33
fear, heightened aggression. Science had just put a man on
42:38
the moon. So they looked to science to win
42:41
a losing war. And Willie and Cole were the Lab
42:46
Rats. Lab Rats with the highest kill
42:48
ratio in the Marine Corps, 4000 plus confirmed kills for a 13
42:54
man squad. You think Cole's behind what's
42:56
happening now? I'm not here to do your
42:58
thinking, Agent Mota. All I know is Augustus Cole
43:03
hasn't slept in 24 years. There's someone else you should
43:08
see. Another member of the squad who
43:10
was reportedly killed in action. I thought Cole was the last.
43:14
His name is on the envelope. But how do I contact you?
43:23
Can't. I may need more.
43:25
You still don't get it, do you? Closing The X-Files, separating
43:30
you and Scully was only the beginning.
43:35
The truth is still out there, but it's never been more
43:40
dangerous. The man we both knew paid for
43:46
that information with his life. A sacrifice I'm not willing to
43:51
make. So Mulder has his new informant
43:57
as such, one who is very invested in having The X-Files
44:00
reopened, which means that the episodes going forward have that
44:04
promise at this point of this occurring.
44:07
But at what cost? And the introduction of Special
44:11
Agent Alex Krawcheck is such a huge, pivotal moment in the
44:15
show. It's just that we didn't know it
44:18
at the time. We didn't know the joy and
44:20
mystique and changing shift in role that this character would
44:24
have on all the relationships within The X-Files mythology.
44:29
His introduction here is as the very green looking agent, the
44:32
one with an obvious drive and ambition to climb the ladder.
44:36
He's the well meaning but overconfident and perhaps
44:40
bumbling young agent. He is very definitely confident
44:43
in himself, something you wouldn't expect from a young
44:47
agent, and he is immediately open to theories from Mulder,
44:50
which probably should have been a red flag early on, but was
44:54
not. So the back and forth between
44:57
the two in this episode is intriguing, making you wonder
45:00
exactly where this partnership is being taken until you come to
45:04
that last scene. And for the moment, everything
45:08
seems to be explained. Cry Check is on the other side
45:12
and he's keeping our two special agents under surveillance, but
45:16
surely nothing bad will come of that, will it?
45:21
There is also a great scene, sorry, with Scully on the phone
45:25
discussing the new partner with Malda and saying it must be nice
45:29
not having her around, poking holes in his theories.
45:33
The exchange is a genuine friendship conversation between
45:36
two people who have been partners in the past and who
45:40
still seek each other out to help on their cases, but are now
45:43
acting in friendship more than close workplace associates.
45:48
It again provides further evidence of the growing together
45:51
of the two. So back to the episode.
45:55
And the story itself is interesting without truly being
45:57
dissected with interest. It is the other stories floating
46:01
around the outside which provides the greater emphasis of
46:04
this episode. Cry Check X Scully and Mulder
46:09
chasing down a case while being separated, and the Smoking Man
46:13
at the end. The story of the episode means
46:16
little compared to the story of these characters playing out
46:19
around it. Which leads us to the PSA.
46:24
The problem, of course, was the death of a person by fire.
46:27
Except there was no fire, but it looked as though he'd died from
46:32
fire. The solution was the sleep
46:35
eradication experiments that had been taken on several men and
46:38
the results of 24 years of no sleep.
46:42
The answerless, well here it appears to have all been wrapped
46:46
up nicely and maybe that also doesn't help the episode.
46:51
But of course the real answerless is the meeting at the
46:54
end with the Smoking Man, the two other mysterious people and
46:58
Alex Krawczyk coming to the fore.
47:02
So overall for the story I would say this is a three out of five
47:05
episode given the real lack of any drama or huge story
47:09
revelations. But in regards to the series
47:13
itself, what this episode has set up with the storyline
47:16
characters, it would be a 5 out of five.
47:21
So I'll split it down the middle and call it a four.
47:25
But it is it is a much watched episode.
47:27
In regards to The X-Files, you really must watch this to
47:31
understand what is going to happen next.
47:39
And so we come to the true beginning of the greatness of
47:43
Season 2 with the season's fifth episode titled Dwayne Barry,
47:48
which was written and directed by Chris Carter.
47:52
And this was the first episode that Chris Carter had ever
47:55
directed. And he did explain in an
47:57
interview that David Nutter had helped him out a lot in the
48:00
process before taking on the role for this episode, and that
48:04
he had learned a lot about character development and
48:06
shooting scenes from being involved at that level, which he
48:10
felt would help his writing from that point on.
48:14
So we meet poor old Dwayne Barry, and Dwayne has had a
48:18
tough life. He was abducted by aliens long
48:22
ago, and they're always coming back for him.
48:25
Why are they so obsessed with poor old Dwayne?
48:28
He keeps being beamed up with them, as he does at the start of
48:31
this episode once again. So as a part of all this, his
48:36
behavior is becoming more aggressive and angry and
48:40
desperate as we meet him. Of course, he's in a mental
48:44
institution, but he's decided I've had enough of this.
48:48
He can feel that the aliens are coming back for him again.
48:52
So he decides he's off, and he's got a plan, and he's taking his
48:56
dock with him. And he has decided that he's
48:59
going to go and find some hostages because he's had to go
49:03
to a travel agent to find out where it is that he actually
49:06
wants to go, which is the site where he usually gets abducted
49:10
from. And he wants to take the doctor
49:13
with him, and he wants his doctor to take his place.
49:18
So he's got to find his way there.
49:20
And of course, the hostage situation has alerted the FBI.
49:25
So who are you going to call? Fox Mulder?
49:30
Yes, sorry, but Fox has never been in a hostage negotiation,
49:34
so he's curious as to why he's been asked to come down.
49:37
And then of course, they tell him that Dwayne Barry has said
49:41
that he has been abducted by aliens before and that he's been
49:45
brought in to try and help with that.
49:48
So of course, Fox goes very professional.
49:50
He asks for details about Dwayne Barry's abductions and all of
49:53
that kind of stuff. But of course, the rest of the
49:56
FBI don't believe Dwayne Barry, and they don't really believe
50:00
Mulder, so they're not interested in talking about
50:02
that. They just want to get him in
50:04
there, get Dwayne Barry out and get the hostages safe.
50:09
Now, as you may not know, Dwayne Barry likes to talk about Dwayne
50:13
Barry in the first person, and he's really good at it.
50:17
And Mulder works out pretty quickly, in fact, on his first
50:21
phone call, that Dwayne Barry is a former FBI agent.
50:25
So he already knows all the tricks of the trade they're
50:27
trying to use with him in this hostage negotiation.
50:31
So Fox calls Scully to find, to get her to find out what she can
50:36
about Dwayne Barry. But in the meantime, all the
50:39
lights go out, the power's gone, electricity's lost.
50:42
And of course, in the long run, the FBI say, oh, it's a power
50:45
station that's gone down up the road.
50:47
Dwayne Barry, of course, he thinks and knows it's the aliens
50:51
who are trying to come back for him.
50:53
And then in the kerfuffle, in all the lights going out, of
50:57
course, Dwayne has shot one of the hostages.
51:01
So Mulder and an FBI doctor, they have to go in and they have
51:06
to talk Dwayne Barry down. And as it turns out, Mulder's
51:12
got to try and get Dwayne's trust.
51:16
So he goes rogue and he goes off script that they've been making
51:20
him read to this point in time. And what we discover in this
51:24
whole situation is what Dwayne goes through when he gets
51:27
abducted by aliens and he tells his story and we see bits and
51:32
pieces of it for the first time in The X-Files.
51:35
We live and abduct these experience.
51:38
This, of course, all started with Max Fenney back in Season
51:41
1, but now we have Dwayne Barry's story as well, and we're
51:44
living it with him. We have the drilling of the
51:47
holes in the teeth, and that scene is sensationally shot.
51:51
It's just scary and eerie and awful to experience.
51:56
Now it's not an R rated scene of course, because this isn't an R
51:59
rated show, but it gives off that same impression.
52:02
And honestly, all dentistry is terrible to listen to,
52:06
especially those drills in the 1st place, let alone having it
52:10
being experienced in an alien abduction.
52:14
So this is a really interesting time.
52:16
And then we get to see what happens through Dwayne Barry's
52:19
eyes. And it's the first time in The
52:22
X-Files that we see this, and it's terrifically interesting.
52:26
So then Scalia rise, of course, she's says that Dwayne Barry is
52:30
not who he says he is, that he has had part of his frontal lobe
52:34
hit by a bullet some years earlier and it's changed his
52:37
personality and he's become a compulsive liar and that he
52:42
might believe what he's saying, but it's actually a lie.
52:45
And so they're not dealing with an alien abductee, they're just
52:49
dealing with a psychopath. So of course, through this
52:53
description of Dwayne Barry retelling it to Mulder, he talks
52:57
about the implants that have been put into him, into his
53:00
gums, into his head, through his belly button, and obviously the
53:04
drilling of holes in the teeth. And eventually it gets to the
53:08
point that Dwayne is shot and the hostages are rescued, which
53:14
is just Mulder and the doctor and Dwayne Barry's taken away.
53:19
Mulder has said the doctors said Dwayne Barry's off the hospital
53:22
and everything's fine and he's going to recover and that should
53:26
be the end of the story. But he then gets called.
53:30
Mulder then gets called down by the agent in charge who
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apologizes for what she said to him initially, but also because
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she didn't believe Mulder's story in the 1st place.
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But then she was being told that when they did the operation on
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Dwayne Barry, they found all of the things in Dwayne Barry that
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Dwayne Barry had told them about.
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The implants in his gums and the holes in his teeth that she says
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no equipment could possibly have made at that point in time.
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I checked on his record for the Bureau.
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It was exemplary. His accident was something of a
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mystery. Shot by his own weapon in a drug
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stakeout, left for dead in the woods.
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He was never the same. Lost everything.
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Wife, kids, house The fine threat of sanity.
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I actually called you down here for another reason, Agent
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Mulder. In the X-rays, the surgeon found
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several pieces of metal in his gums, in his sinus cavity and
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one in the abdomen. I had them Chapter I felt you'd
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want to know and there were tiny drill holes in his left and
54:51
right rear molars. A dentist who examined them said
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they could not have been done with any of the current
54:57
equipment in use. Not without chipping or damaging
55:01
the tooth anyway. I thought you ought to know.
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So Scully gets a piece of the fragment from Mulder as to check
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to going down into the FBI to check out.
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And she does. And she finds that it's got very
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thin lines on it, and she's not really sure what it is until she
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goes to the supermarket later on and realizes it looks like a
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barcode. So she actually scans the piece
55:31
of metal that was in Dwayne Barry on a barcode reader and
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the whole system just goes absolutely nuts.
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And she realizes that Dwayne Barry has been catalogued with
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these fragments that are a part of him.
55:44
Unfortunately, at the same time, Dwayne Barry has escaped from
55:48
hospital because he knows the aliens are coming for him.
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And somewhat surprisingly, he ends up at Dana Scully's house
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and finds her. And as she's on the on the
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answering machine at Fox Moulder's house, she is abducted
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at the end of the episode. And it feels like we have got
56:06
lots of problems going forward. Now, it's not really explained
56:11
as to how Dwane Barry found Dana Scully.
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But I'm guessing we could go from the story that because she
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has a piece of the fragment with her from Dwane Barry, that for
56:21
whatever reason he is able to find her in his head because now
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she is part of that catalog that he had been.
56:29
And so the episode ends with the blackening of the screen and to
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be continued. And that's when we have a break.
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It's the end of the episode. And when we watched this the
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first time, we had to wait a week for the next episode to
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find out what happened. And guess what, you're going to
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have to wait till the next episode too.
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So this is a terrific episode in The X-Files, a really important
56:54
one in as a part of The X-Files, as well as the next episode,
56:58
which we will speak of on the next podcast episode.
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So we have the PSA and we have the problem that Dwayne Barry
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has escaped and taken people hostage and he claims that he's
57:09
an alien abductee and that Mulder has been called in
57:12
because of that. And the solution is what we
57:15
think, that Mulder has talked Dwayne Barry down and had the
57:19
others released. And then, of course, that Mulder
57:22
originally believed him while he was in the hostage situation
57:26
about being an alien abductee. And he says this to Scully.
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At one point, he says, I actually believed his story.
57:32
But of course, then Scully, who hadn't believed it by the end of
57:36
the episode, has discovered that Scully does believe his story
57:41
because she realizes that he's been catalogued for whatever
57:44
reason. And the answer is, of course, is
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what's going to happen to Scully.
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And we won't find that out for a little bit.
57:54
So this is a terrific episode, as I said, and in the whole
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X-Files chronology, this is one of the ones that really brings
58:03
the alien mythology part of the show to the fore.
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And this is where we are now going in Season 2.
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We've had this massive build up to this point.
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And at this point, having watched this episode, we can't
58:17
wait to see what happens next. So for me, this is a 5 out of
58:23
five episode because of what it brings to the whole series and
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what it brings next. So that's it for this episode #8
58:37
in a series of many, many more to come.
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And we've begun our journey through season 2 of this
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brilliant TV show, 1, where I really began or became a huge
58:50
fan of this series for the first time back when it aired in
58:53
Australia in 1995. And we're about to get to the
58:57
nitty gritty and find out exactly where we are in this
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wonderful world that has been created for us.
59:03
The mix of episodes here is all a part of that build.
59:07
It's from the closure of The X-Files and the separation of
59:10
our erstwhile agents back to where shit is about to get real.
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So thanks for listening and being a part of this.
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All righty enough from me. I can't wait to get into episode
1:00:26
9 of this wonderful podcast series that I'm doing because as
1:00:32
I said, the next few episodes are just as fascinating as these
1:00:35
five have been. So thank you for listening and
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of course I can't wait for it to return with revisiting The
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X-Files where the truth is very much still out there.
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