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Revisiting The X Files Episode 5 · Death by Multimedia

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Hi everyone and welcome back to episode 5 of Revisiting The
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X-Files. For each episode, I'll be
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working my way through the 11 series, 2 movies, and several
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books that make up The X-Files. For those of you returning for
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this episode, thanks again for being here.
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And if you're a first time listener, well, I hope this is
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not only enjoyable for you to listen to, but perhaps piques
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your interest once again in a great TV show.
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The format here is that I'll be working my way through the
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entire show and several other media as we go, and for the most
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part we'll cover 5 episodes of this series in each episode.
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But firstly, I'll be going through the feedback of the last
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episode a lot less than when we started, but we may as well be
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true to the listenership overall.
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So we have two today. Michael from Melbourne posted on
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Blue Sky. Another enjoyable episode.
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Thanks Bill. EBE being the standout in this
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batch, we get to meet the lone gunman who become important in
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later conspiracy episodes. I recalled the Erlenmeyer flask
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being an excellent closer to this series.
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Well, we'll soon see about that. Cheers Michael.
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And because 1 Michael can never be enough, here's a first time
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comment from Michael from Canberra.
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Hi Bill, wanted to let you know how much I'm enjoying your
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X-Files podcast. It was good to hear you are a
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Quantum Leap fan too. I'm a bit of a Donald P
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Bellisario aficionado as a matter of fact.
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Remember Baa Baa Black Sheep and Tales of the Gold Monkey?
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I still watch Jag on Channel 10 Cheerio Michael from Queanbeyan.
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Cheers for that Michael. And yes, both of those shows got
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airtime in my childhood home and I even watched NCIS throughout
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the 1st 762 seasons that that has aired for before it just
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came a little bit overwhelming. Have to say though that I've
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also enjoyed the recent renewal of Quantum Leap and it's a shame
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that it too only lasted two seasons.
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Once again, thanks for all the feedback and it's greatly
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appreciated as always. And if you want to get involved,
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I'll tell you about the contacts at the end of the episode.
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All righty, enough banter here at the start.
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Let's crash right into this week's episode.
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So here we go with Season 1 episode 20 titled Darkness
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Falls. And this is a monster of the
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Week episode and is directed by Joe Napolitano again and written
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by showrunner Chris Carter. So I've got to say from the
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outset, this is a great episode. Mulder has finagled his way into
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a mystery disappearance of a group of loggers because another
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group disappeared from the same place 60 years earlier.
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And he's telling Scully that they're just going to go for a
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walk in the forest. And they are driven to the
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campsite by Larry Moore from the US Forest Service and Steve
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Humphreys, who is the head of security for the logging
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company. Their car is disabled on the way
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up by a tire shredding device left by eco terrorists who have
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been causing problems for the loggers and for whom Humphreys
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is quite offside with. So they're forced to hike to the
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campsite, and when they get there, they find it abandoned.
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And also the radio's trashed. And all the vehicles have been
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incapacitated by these eco terrorists.
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They've left traps that punctured the car's tires.
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All of the equipment at the side has basically been shut down
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with rice and sugar in the petrol tanks and the carburetors
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and the radiators. So basically nothing works.
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So while they're repairing the generator, Humphreys captures
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one of these eco terrorists, Doug Spinney, who has come to
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the camp to get supplies for his friends who are at another site.
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And when he's accused by Humphreys of offing the loggers
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group, Spinney just says it wasn't him and that it is what
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did it. So when the group tours the
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logging area the following day, discovering that all the old
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forest has been cut down, which is despite it being protected,
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they find 2 discoveries. The first is a cocoon hanging
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from a tree that when Scully cuts it down, is discovered to
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be the body of a man, presumably one of the missing loggers.
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And the second is that on one of the old forest trees that has
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been cut down, one of the rings is encased with a a green
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substance. And on further investigation
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back at the cabin, they find small organisms that are active
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within that substance. And this is what Spinney
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suspects is an Organism that was dormant in the tree for
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centuries and was disturbed only when the tree was illegally cut
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down. Humphreys, of course, believes
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that this is all rubbish, and so he decides to hike down back to
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Moore's truck to use the radio. But he's attacked by the swarm
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of organisms at nightfall. And of course, everyone in the
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cabin is kept safe at night because the light is on, which
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Spinney had said was the only way to stop them from attacking.
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So we've lost Humphreys, he's gone.
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The next day. Spinney convinces Miles that's
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letting take the truck that he has managed to get started to
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take fuel back to his other campsite because they only had
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enough petrol in their generator for 15 hours, which is why he'd
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come down in the 1st place. And so of course, without the
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generator, there's no light and therefore there is no defense
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against these organisms at night.
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So Mulder allows him to take off for the fuel, which of course
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turns out to be a mistake because now they've only got
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enough fuel in the generator for a few hours and perhaps not the
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entire night. And there's this really lovely
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scene between Mulder and Scully talking about how Mulder has
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made his mistake and that they're talking about, look,
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it's OK, we'll get through it whatever happens.
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And then as soon as the generator runs out of fuel after
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this conversation, you can see the dawn has broken.
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So for now, they're safe, but it's pretty obvious they've got
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to get away. So they take off Dan to the car,
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the same car that they left initially with the spare tire
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that they've been able to get off one of the cars up at the
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campsite. And they know that they have to
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get out of the woods before nightfall.
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So Mulder, Scully and Moore hiked back to the car with the
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spare wheel, only to find Humphreys cocooned in the car.
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And as they're thinking that they're obviously in all sorts
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of trouble because it's once again getting towards nightfall,
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Spinney turns up in his Jeep. And he says that everyone on his
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side at the other campsite is dead and that they've just got
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to get away as soon as they can. So if they go, they head down
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the hill. And of course, they then get
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caught by another booby trap, which Moore says is a kind of
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poetic justice for Spinney. And so you can see the organisms
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arrive. Spinney takes off, runs off into
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the in the woods while being attacked, never to be seen again
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and as the organisms enter the car it looks like it's curtains
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for our heroes. But thankfully a message has
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gotten through and the government quarantine agents
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arrive and take away the three to a base hospital for
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treatment. So that's a very basic outline
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of the story. I don't want to give it away,
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and it probably doesn't seem very exciting the way I've just
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said it, but there's lots about this episode that is
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interesting. I especially like how Mulder
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realizes that he's stuffed up by letting Spinney take all of the
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fuel, not knowing that he was taking all the fuel, but to take
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that fuel to yard to his site so that if Spinney does not return
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as he promises to do, he's basically condemned Scully and
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more to their fates. So that is something, and you
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can see Mulder coming to the recognition of that in this
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particular scene and the conversation with Moore 1st and
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then with Scully where Scully's more or less saying how could
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you do that? And initially Mulder is upset
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and then he's angry, but he reels in his emotions to focus
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on what they have to do now that it's no use thinking about what
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he's done, but what needs to be done now to survive.
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So as a viewer, you are immediately saying, hey, why not
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fill the generator with fuel 1st and then take the rest up the
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mound? But you know, there you go.
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It's the first thing you think of when you see that happening.
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And it's the same when Humphreys goes down to the car.
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He's heard what they've been talking about in the cabin, that
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you need light, you need to be in light to stop these organisms
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swarming. Now, whether he believes it or
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not, when he does eventually sue them, he jumps into the car and
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he starts the car, but he doesn't have the interior light
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on. Just turn the interior light on
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and surely that would work. And then hopefully you've got
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enough fuel in that car to keep that interior light going until
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daylight. I mean, why wasn't he thinking
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about that? And also the other thing that
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came with that was that when Spinney picked them all up and
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then the car stopped because it had been, it'd run over one of
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those traps and Spinney gets out and he's standing in the
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headlights of the car and yet he's still being attacked by
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these organisms even though he's in the light from the
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headlights. So is that a bit of a stuff up
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by the riders here? It's up to you to decide, I
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guess. I think so.
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I do love the fact that when they're in the cabin at night
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and Scully can see the creatures in the darkness around the door,
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but then realizes that they're actually all over, all of them,
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and her panic and fear is absolutely real.
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And Gillian Anderson does a brilliant job in this particular
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scene of showcasing the fact that Scully has pretty much lost
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it. And so that's a really wonderful
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scene where we get to see her do that.
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It's just fantastic. And then Mulder, of course,
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finally calms it down and points out that although these
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organisms are everywhere, the light stops them from swarming,
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which is why they're safe. If they're in the light, I can.
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See them? You guys look at this because
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they're coming through the wall. Nine more.
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It's dark. You see them?
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Stop it, Stop it. You're staying out, Holder.
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Get them off me. They're not just on you.
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They're everywhere. I think that's what that greasy
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residue is over everything I thought.
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We were supposed to be safe in the light.
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We are. I think the light keeps them
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from swarming. We'll be safe as long as we stay
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in the light. So lots of good stuff there.
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So let's check out the PSA of the episode.
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The problem that is opened is the disappearance of the group
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of loggers in the same place as another group of disappeared 60
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years earlier, which we never really work out as to whether
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that's the same sort of organisms.
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Let's put a part of the answer. So I'll come back to that.
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I guess the solution, of course, is that this ancient swarm of
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organisms has been set loose by cutting down old growth forest,
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which then cocoon and drain their victims during darkness.
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And the answer is here is, well, can they be contained now that
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they've been let loose? And the fact that if it's the
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same thing as 60 years earlier, where do those organisms go?
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Why didn't they continue to move out into the world and and take
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over the world? Because the final scene sees
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Mulder still recovering in quarantine alongside Scully and
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Moore who are not yet. Well, we're told that not yet
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out of the woods. Nice pun.
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Bill and Mulder is told by the government scientists that they
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are currently doing a controlled boom with pesticides to destroy
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and contain the threat. And when Mulder asks what will
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happen if it's failed, the scientist simply replies that is
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not an option Mr. Mulder. So if 60 years earlier it was
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the same thing that occurred, why did they not swarm to these
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lengths then? I don't know.
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It's maybe, maybe, maybe Chris Carter didn't quite get
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everything right in this episode.
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But you know, maybe I'm just also asking too many questions.
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So anyway, this was a great episode.
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And I think once again, this is a slow burn episode.
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Like it continues to build all the way through.
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I wouldn't have said that there's a huge amount of tension
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as such. I just think that the episode is
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so easy to watch because the story continues to build all the
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way through and it doesn't just settle on its own path.
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It continues. With each particular scene,
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we're getting further and further into the story and
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everything builds to the final conclusion.
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So for me it's a 5 out of five episode because we get
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everything you can possibly want.
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And we also get Scully and Mulder who are in a position
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where they could well have died. And obviously, you know, they've
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they've suffered quite a bit. And at the end that suffering is
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going to take time to actually recover from, which of course we
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don't get to see because we then jump to the next episode.
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So another good 15 out of five. Well done Chris Carter.
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It's great. So let's move on to episode 21
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of Season 1. And here we have the episode
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called Tombs, a return Monster of the Week episode directed by
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the excellent David Nutter once again and features the returning
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writing team of, you guessed it, Glenn Morgan and James Wong for
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their 6th episode of the first series.
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So this is the first episode where we see a returning
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character to look back on, and it wouldn't be the last.
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And it's probably through the success of this episode and this
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character that allowed that to occur going forward.
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So at the start of the episode, we see Eugene Toombs, who is
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still incarcerated, but he's thinking about trying to get
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out, as we saw at the end of the third episode of season 1 called
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Squeeze, for those who can remember back that far, he's
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looking at the slot where the food was coming through the door
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as a way of escape. And this is exactly how we see
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him at the start of the episode. He's trying to escape by getting
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his elongated all the way up to try and open the door from the
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inside to the outside, but then he's interrupted by the arrival
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of his psychologist who tells him that he's likely to be set
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free. So from here we see two
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different scenes, the first one with Scully being called into
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the office of assistant director Walter S Skinner, his first
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appearance in The X-Files, which we'll talk more about shortly,
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along with the Smoking Man who makes his return to The X-Files.
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So this is pretty important scene.
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And while the Nemesis stands quietly smoking, Skinner says to
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Scully that they need more from her in regards to The X-Files,
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that they want increased frequency of reports and they
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want conventional investigation. And of course, Scully says if
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it's by the book, that conventional investigation of
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these cases may decrease the rate of success.
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And then secondly, we go back to the court and we see Toombs in
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his hearing, and it's Mulder who comes up to give his evidence.
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And of course, if he's going to give evidence that suggests that
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Toombs is over 100 years old and that he's a perpetrator of all
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these murders in the past, over 30 years, 60 years, 90 years
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ago, it's probably not going to work out very well.
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And that's exactly the point. And as it turns out, Fox does
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say after the court case, after he comes out from the hearing,
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when Scully confronts him on this, he just says, I don't care
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how it sounded as long as it was the truth, which it was.
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But also it made him look crazy. And of course, Toombs is
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released as a result. So now Fox decides he's going to
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hound Toombs. Fox hound.
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How good are these puns going today?
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So funny. Anyway, he's following him
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around, following Toomes around while Scully has to go up and
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try and find some other evidence to try and put him away again
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before he can kill again. Because Toomes is still gunning
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for that fifth liver, which he wasn't able to get in that
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episode. Squeeze, which will allow him to
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return to hibernation for another 30 years.
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So he goes, sorry, Scully goes back to Frank Briggs, the
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detective from Squeeze who had investigated his murders 30
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years before. And through him they discovered
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the one body that had not been accounted for from 60 years ago.
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And on that skeleton, they find bite marks on the bones around
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the liver that they are eventually able to confirm are
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Tombs's bite marks. Meanwhile, of course, Toombs is
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is out there. He's looking for a new body and
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a new liver, but he's being thwarted by Mulder at every
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opportunity. So he tries to break into a
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house, but Mulder gets there in time and and and warns off the
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people he's trying to grab. So to get him off his back,
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Toombs decides to frame Mulder. He breaks into Mulder's house,
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as you would expect, through a break, and he actually assaults
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himself using Fox's shoes. And then he goes to the police
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and the police actually bring Mulder in to charge him with
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assault. And this leads to our second
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scene with Skinner and the Smoking Man, where Mulder is
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warned off any further contact with Toombs.
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So from that point on, Toombs is free to go about it.
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And of course, he's presented the perfect opportunity when his
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psychologist turns up and where he's living and to see how he's
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going. And so he gets his fifth liver,
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much to his psychologist distress, one would say.
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So Mulder and Scully have discovered that these teeth
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marks on the old skeleton are definitely those of Eugene
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Toombs. And of course, they turn up at
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his house and they discovered that he has his fifth liver,
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courtesy of his psychologist, and they deduce that he's going
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back to his nest. But as it turns out, this place
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has now been torn down. As we saw in Squeeze it was it
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was under demolition orders and a mall has actually replaced it.
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So now they have to search the mall to find his nest and so
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they again deduce it. It must be in a random at the
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same place as it was before. So they find an entry point
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under the escalators which will fit only one person and Moulder.
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Malda tells Scully that she can chase the next mutant they come
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across and he heads off. Down into the bile infested
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narrow passageway. And of course he finds Tombs
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nest. And he also finds Tombs, because
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Tombs has decided he's going to drag him into his awfully
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drippy, sticky lair. Fortunately for all, of course,
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Mulder escapes, and as Tombs approaches, he hits the start
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button on the escalators. Tombs is dragged in and he meets
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a crushing end. So this is such a beautifully
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done episode. Now of course, in Squeeze you
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may remember that we had the director who did not get on with
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the rest of the cast at all and actually wouldn't film scenes
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that needed doing, and so it was sort of a bit of a hotchpot
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situation. This one though, with David
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Nutter involved as director, is perfectly filmed and perfectly
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acted by everyone involved. And it's even better than the
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original episode because of this, because of the direction
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and it's creepy and everything plays out perfectly.
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And I think you can see the difference that a great director
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makes just from these two episodes.
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Both terrific episodes, really well written, but this one had a
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producer who was really on point and David Nutter is proving
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himself to be so here on The X-Files.
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The script is excellent, again from the same pair who brought
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us the first episode, and it's a lovely tie up from that story.
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In that episode it was insinuated that Tombs was going
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to escape. Here that won't be the case, but
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the episode builds all the way through.
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Like I said, it's creepy. It keeps you in suspense.
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You don't really know exactly what's going to go on when you
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see Tombs break into Molder's apartment.
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Is he going to attack Molder or is he going to take something?
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Is he going to try and take his liver?
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And of course he's not doing that.
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He's just trying to get Mulder off his back so he can do what
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he needs to do without being bothered.
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So all of that is done and filmed and acted particularly
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well. There's a lot of great parts in
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the episode. As I said, the arrival for the
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first time of assistant director Walter Skinner in The X-Files.
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And he actually, for his first scenes, comes across really
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well. Now, of course, his character
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changes as we go through the whole series with everything
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that he experiences and is exposed to, which is why it's
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wonderful the way he starts off here.
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It's just terrifically well done.
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Mitch Pileggi has been perfectly cast for this role, and he makes
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it his own as we move through the years.
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And here at the start, The Smoking Man with the return of
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William B Davis beside him in in the office episodes is an
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interesting plot point because eventually, of course, their
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relationship changes all the way through The X-Files as well.
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But here in this first episode together, they were excellent.
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That opening scene where they have Scully in the office and
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Skinner is basically saying that, you know, we're not
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getting the right reports from you, We're not getting what we
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want from you, and we need more. And then the interview with
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Malda and Scully, who are both in the office at the time.
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And then when Skinner says, can I speak to Mulder alone?
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And then he calls him Fox, which obviously is very unusual.
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And he says that we've been watching you come up through the
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Academy, we've seen you from a long way out, how brilliant
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you're going to be, but that I feel that The X-Files is
23:56
dragging you down. I think maybe you just need to
23:58
have a change so you can see that he's basically on Mulder's
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side, but he just needs him to be more conventional because of
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course, that's what Skinner has been brought up with.
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So those two scenes there with Walter Skinner are great.
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The other interesting thing here is where Mulder is named Fox
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again in the same episode, but this time by Scully.
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The first time that we had Scully actually call him Fox.
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So I'm going to play you that bit now because I think it's
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much better listening to it than me trying to explain it to you.
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Mulder, you know that proper surveillance requires 2 pairs of
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agents, one pair relieving the other after 12 hours.
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Article 30, paragraph 8.7. This isn't about doing it by the
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book. This is about you not having
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slept for three days, Mulder. You're going to get sloppy and
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you're going to get hurt. It's inevitable at this point.
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A request for other agents to stake out to us would be denied
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to them. We have no grounds.
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Well then, I'll stay here. You go home.
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They're out to put an end to The X-Files, Scully.
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I don't know why, but any excuse will do.
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Now, I don't really care about my record, but you'd be in
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trouble just sitting in this car and I'd hate to see you carry an
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official reprimand in your career file because of me.
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Fox. And I I even made my parents
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call me Molder. Molder.
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Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you.
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If there's an iced tea in that bag, could be love.
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Must be fate Mulder Root beer. You're delirious.
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Go home and get some sleep. Here.
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Take my sandwich. I only had one bite.
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You're going to want it later. Believe me.
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And you'll call me if anything happens immediately.
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I'll be here. Oh, oh.
26:13
At 11:30 station 790 Pete Rose late night sports talk radio
26:17
show. So that was really interesting.
26:21
And again, this just shows how this relationship, this work
26:25
relationship is developing between the two, as well as of
26:28
course, the intergrowing personal relationship out of
26:31
that professional relationship. Other really interesting parts
26:35
about this was Mulder watching the original movie of The Fly
26:38
from 1955. I think that's a really nice
26:40
touch. And one other thing, of course,
26:42
is that the mall appeared out of nowhere.
26:46
But this episode is set like only a few months after Tombs
26:49
was actually caught by Mulder and Scully in the 1st place.
26:52
And yet suddenly this building was condemned at the same time
26:56
and had been pulled down and a whole new mall had been built in
26:59
that very short space of time. And I'm sorry, there is no
27:03
building in the world being built that quick.
27:06
So that seems a little bit out of sorts.
27:10
So let's go with the PSA. The problem, of course, is that
27:12
Eugene Toombs is going to be released from jail and he needs
27:15
to consume one more liver so that he can go into hibernation
27:19
for another 30 years. And it's up to Mulder and Scully
27:22
to stop him from murdering someone else again to be able to
27:25
do that. The solution, of course, is that
27:28
they do eventually find him after he's consumed that liver,
27:31
but they're actually able to kill him with the use of the
27:34
escalator in the mall. And the answer list of these
27:36
episodes is that twice here. Our next episode is #22 of
27:44
season 1 titled Born Again, which is directed by Gerald
27:48
Freeman and written by the team of Alex Ganza and Howard Gordon,
27:53
which is their 6th episode together in season 1, though
27:56
Howard has actually 7 writing credits for this season.
28:01
So what I like about this episode is that there's an
28:03
immediate call back to the previous episode.
28:06
We start off with the unusual death of the police officer,
28:09
basically jumping out of the window of the interview room
28:13
while interviewing the young girl, Michelle, who has been
28:15
picked up alone outside the station.
28:18
We then have Detective Lizard, played by Maggie Wheeler, who
28:22
famously played Janice in Friends, though she doesn't
28:26
speak like Janice here, thankfully.
28:27
She speaks normally, but she's called in Mulder and Scully from
28:33
the FBI and she says that her brother is a cop and that he had
28:37
heard of their work on the Toombs case and said that you
28:40
had a good feel for things like this.
28:44
So I really loved how that call came immediately after the
28:48
previous episode and was also used by a different set of
28:52
writers as well. How'd you hear about us?
28:58
My brother, my, my brother's a cop.
29:01
Baltimore. He told me about your work on
29:03
the Tombs case. He said you got a good feel for
29:06
things out of the ordinary. Look, the truth is Barbara never
29:11
won any popularity contest here at the 14, but he's he's still a
29:15
cop. You know, I guess that's why I I
29:19
can't just let this rest. You said there was one witness,
29:23
a little girl. What did she say happened?
29:25
She said there was another man in the room.
29:28
Well, it stands to reason that somebody.
29:29
I was right outside. I'm telling you, there was
29:31
nobody else there except for Barbala and the kid.
29:33
So you didn't get a description of who the kid saw I'm.
29:36
Telling you there was no one else?
29:40
Listen, the department's treatment is a suicide.
29:44
But I got to tell you, I knew this guy.
29:46
There's no way he did himself. Or was he depressed or under
29:50
psychiatric care of any kind? No.
29:54
The only time he ever looked at himself was in the mirror, and
29:56
he always liked what he saw. So obviously Michelle has been
30:02
found and and then a cop has gone and basically topped
30:05
himself, or so were you led to believe.
30:09
We have a facial composite done by the computer from Michelle's
30:13
description, which comes up as a match for a detective named
30:17
Charlie Morris, who died nine years previously.
30:21
So already we've got some strange things going on.
30:25
Michelle's psychiatrist, because she's been having problems, says
30:28
that she habitually mutilates dolls in the same way each time
30:32
she comes into her office, removing the same eye and same
30:35
arm each time. So of course, Molda realizes
30:40
eventually that these mutilations match the exact
30:43
circumstances of Charlie Morris's death.
30:46
So they go to interview Morris's ex partner on the force, who
30:49
says that the death was through a triad gang.
30:53
And of course, as we move through, we find out that, well,
30:57
there's a little bit of a connection here about several
31:00
people in this story who suddenly turn up dead.
31:04
And every time they turn up dead, guess who's there?
31:07
Little Michelle, who just for some reason seems to be on site
31:13
when they interview her mother, our agents discover that she
31:16
says that she's never been a happy child.
31:19
She screams whenever she gets near water, and she won't go in
31:23
swimming at all for apparently no reason whatsoever.
31:28
And obviously, as we work through this episode, we
31:31
discover that is because Dum Dum dum.
31:35
She is the reincarnation of Charlie Morris.
31:40
And of course, Charlie Morris was killed in a different way
31:43
from what has actually been said.
31:45
We discover along the way that Charlie's former partner Tony is
31:49
now married to Charlie's widow. And all of the things that tie
31:54
Michelle to Charlie are there. She makes origami figures, and
31:59
Charlie Morris used to make origami figures.
32:02
There's a fish tank in the house at Charlie Morris's former home.
32:05
And of course, we eventually discover that he was drowned in
32:09
that fish tank, so that he was killed through drowning rather
32:13
than through mutilation, thus why Michel doesn't want to go
32:17
near water. And all of these people keep
32:21
turning up dead who are involved in the story.
32:25
Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully are slowly putting this story
32:28
together. After several attempts from
32:31
Molda, Michelle goes through a session of regression hypnosis
32:34
that Molda had tried to get to use at the start of the episode.
32:38
Which of course is something he did in regards to finding out
32:41
about his sister Samantha in his memory and how she disappeared
32:45
in that earlier episode. And through that, we find that
32:50
Michelle says that she is aged 24, which of course she isn't,
32:55
but that's the age Morris was when he died.
33:00
And then she starts screaming uncontrollably that someone is
33:04
killing her. And then after the fact, once
33:06
Mahler is looking back on this footage that they filmed of her
33:09
during this interview, they find there's a little disturbance in
33:12
the footage that needs to be cleaned up.
33:14
And when they do clean up this interference, they come across
33:18
what looks like a picture of a man in a diving suit.
33:22
And guess what? It is eventually remembered that
33:26
this is exactly what's in the fish tank at Tony's place, and
33:30
it becomes obvious that this is the last thing that Charlie
33:33
Morris saw before he died and that has registered through
33:37
psychic imprint on the video. And so this is how they discover
33:42
that it must be involved. So Mulder and Scully rush back
33:46
to Tony's house where they find Michelle has broken in and she's
33:50
using her telekinetic powers to try and kill Tony and they're
33:54
able to help him through Tony's wife who of course is Charlie's
33:59
ex-wife who implores Michelle slash Charlie to please not hurt
34:04
Tony anymore. And then she stops and Tony of
34:08
course is arrested and he now confesses to everything about
34:12
everything that had occurred. Everyone else is dead so it
34:16
doesn't really matter. Michelle's knocked them all off
34:19
well done Michelle. And Michelle herself now has
34:21
forgotten all of this stuff. She's gone back to what you
34:25
would consider her normal self, and she's finally learning how
34:28
to swim. And she doesn't remember
34:30
anything of what had happened before that.
34:32
And Charlie Morris now has obviously moved on.
34:37
So in the long run, the episode's done well and it's
34:40
filmed well. It's obvious to us from a very
34:44
early point in the story, which is probably necessary so as not
34:47
to make this a gotcha episode at the end as to what was going on.
34:51
Andrea Libman, who played Michelle, was excellent as the
34:55
as a child actress to be able to be very sullen all the way
34:59
through and have no emotion on her face and play that part
35:03
excellently. And it was great to see as well.
35:06
As I said, Maggie Wheeler playing a different role from
35:09
Janice. And I love that call back, as I
35:12
said earlier about talking about the Toomes case.
35:15
So that was really important and it's an interesting story all
35:17
the way through. Overall, though, when we come to
35:22
the relationship side between Mulder and Scully, nothing
35:25
really much different comes into it.
35:28
Of course, Scully continues to not believe in the supernatural
35:32
and searches for the scientific method of solution.
35:36
And again we have Mulder in some exasperation saying to Scully,
35:40
how much more apparent does it have to become for you to accept
35:44
this? And then he continues, how can
35:46
you not believe with everything we have seen and all the
35:50
evidence that is banking up, how can you not believe that this is
35:53
the case, that it's not just a confused little girl, as Scully
35:57
says at one stage. So these Scully theories, sorry,
36:02
of Scully's character, an ongoing thing in this first
36:06
series and then into the second series.
36:09
And even though Scully will always back the side of science
36:13
and look for that kind of logical solution in that regard,
36:17
we will see as we move into the second series that there are
36:20
other circumstances that occur that begin to bring her around
36:24
to start thinking on a wider scale than only just scientific
36:29
values. At least at the end of this
36:32
episode, Scully's actually in the room and sees the result of
36:35
the telekinesis as it is being utilized by Michelle slash
36:38
Charlie. So that is something, but
36:42
everything's coming to a head for Scully in terms of belief
36:45
and, and having her mind completely open.
36:48
It's it's coming very soon. So this is a very good episode.
36:52
It's not a great episode. It's certainly not what I would
36:56
consider an St. episode. It's it's very good.
37:00
And I gave this four out of five, mainly for the acting of
37:03
the actress who played Michelle and the way that the story
37:06
rolled through and revealed as it went from different stages of
37:10
the conspiracy that had happened around Charlie Morris's death
37:13
and who was actually involved and then why they were involved.
37:18
So for me, a four out of five episode radio, our penultimate
37:28
episode of season 1 is next number 23 titled Roland.
37:33
And it's directed by David Nutter again, and was written by
37:38
first timer Chris Rappenthal. So this episode centres around
37:42
the eponymous character of Roland Fuller, who is a mentally
37:46
disabled janitor at a Research Institute.
37:49
And from the very start of the episode, we see where Roland
37:51
comes into the main office and he's just mopping around as you
37:55
do. But as a part of his duties
37:58
here, apparently, it appears as though he's decided he's going
38:01
to take out one of the scientists by locking him inside
38:04
the wind chamber and suddenly knowing how to turn it on until
38:08
he's sucked in and killed. And then he decides to solve the
38:12
equation that's on the whiteboard that no one else
38:15
seems to be able to solve. And then he mops on.
38:18
So good work, Roland. Well done from the very start.
38:22
So this is the Icarus project where they're at a Jet
38:26
Propulsion lab and they're trying to create for future jets
38:29
the ability to gain twice the speed for half the fuel.
38:33
And one of their main scientists, whose name was
38:36
Arthur Grable, was killed in a car crash some six months
38:39
earlier. And all of his REACH research
38:41
there was therefore left unattended.
38:45
However, as we moved along with the episode, we find that we've
38:48
already lost one person in the wind chamber, as we just
38:50
discussed, and then we lose another scientist who had his
38:54
head dunked in some very toxic stuff, some liquid nitrogen, and
38:58
also finds himself dead. And then for that, for the next
39:03
5 hours at his computer while he was dead, Arthur Grable's work
39:07
has been continued, which seems unfortunate because Arthur
39:11
Grable is dead. So we now have the switch of the
39:15
episode from this point because we know Roland is behind these
39:19
two killings, at least in body. For Roland, although he is
39:25
mentally challenged, it's apparent that Roland has
39:28
actually a twin brother who is in fact Arthur Grabel, who was
39:34
the scientist that hired him as a cleaner at the lab and then
39:38
had died in that car accident. But one of the things we
39:42
discover through this is that Arthur Grabel had his head
39:45
cryogenically frozen after the car crash.
39:48
Welcome back, Walt Disney. The only part of the body that
39:52
actually survived that accident was his head.
39:54
So it's just the head that's in this cryogenically frozen tube.
39:58
And it appears that he is now manipulating Roland from his
40:01
frozen tomb like a robot, or as Molder uses as an example, that
40:06
he's controlling Roland like a remote control car.
40:10
And so it appears from Molder's point of view that Arthur is
40:13
controlling Roland, killing off other scientists and then trying
40:17
to complete his work. Now, of course, there is one
40:21
more scientist that is left, and he of course is Professor
40:25
Nollet. And he hears Molder speaking
40:28
about this with Scully about his theory.
40:32
So he goes to the cryogenic lab and he disables the thermostat
40:36
on Rabel's tomb in order to have the tube defrost and eventually
40:42
that Arthur Gravel's head will no longer be able to survive
40:44
because it will then defreeze. So what we're going to get from
40:49
this point is that Grable again takes over Roland's body and
40:53
breaks into the lab again to try and complete his work before he
40:56
has actually killed himself in the cryogenic lab.
41:00
And of course Nollett comes in and finds Roland slash Arthur
41:04
there. And he addresses him as Arthur
41:06
as he now knows that this is who it is, saying that he's finished
41:10
his work. And of course Nollett is exposed
41:12
by Arthur as the person who is stealing his work.
41:15
And Nollett then says you were dead, so I'm not stealing your
41:20
work, I'm just trying to complete it and take all the
41:24
glory. So now Arthur through Roland has
41:26
done that even for him now, so he doesn't have to solve it
41:29
because Arthur's actually completed it.
41:31
So what to do? Well, Arthur slash Roland knocks
41:35
him out the work. The wind tunnel worked really
41:39
well the first time, so let's just do it again.
41:42
And it's only that Mulder and Scully turn up in time, and then
41:46
Scully, who talks to Roland rather than Arthur.
41:50
She makes sure she contacts to Roland and is able to convince
41:53
Roland to find a way to stop the wind tunnel from working,
41:56
remembering what Arthur had put in and in the long run saving
42:00
Nollette. And we see once that occurs, the
42:04
cryogenic capsule has completely failed and Arthur with it.
42:09
And at the end of the episode, Roland is now being taken away
42:12
into custody for the murders that he's committed, although
42:15
Mulder and Scully are confident he will return to the halfway
42:17
home soon and not actually be convicted for those murders.
42:24
If I have seen further than other men, it's because I have
42:30
stood on the shoulders of giants.
42:39
This isn't yours. It's amazing.
42:45
There's this body sitting there in front of me talking, but
42:50
you're controlling it. Arthur took my work.
42:59
What good was your work going to do?
43:01
You? You died before you could finish
43:04
it, before you could publish it. It was mine.
43:08
And a brilliant piece of work too.
43:11
When I saw the writing on the whiteboard, I knew someone had
43:14
found the key. Mach 15 was within our reach.
43:17
Our futures were guaranteed. Ironic, isn't it?
43:22
You did all the work and I get all the glory.
43:28
Yes, yes, Arthur, I was here working on the intrigue problem,
43:37
moments away from a solution, when you attacked me.
43:40
Fortunately, I was tearing a gun after the murder of my
43:44
colleagues. Who could blame me?
43:49
That's, that's interesting. I've got it.
43:55
That's it, I've got it. Good.
44:04
So we have an episode that even though we're able to see this as
44:07
we move through the episode and we are able to understand
44:10
exactly what's happening, there are still only little bits and
44:14
pieces revealed as we move through the episode.
44:16
So that makes it enjoyable to watch.
44:20
So there's time for the PSA. The problem, of course, is we
44:24
have a scientist who's been killed mysteriously, with only a
44:26
small number of people there who could have done the crime.
44:30
Who could it have been? The solution, of course, ends up
44:33
being that Arthur Grable is able to enter the mind of his
44:36
identical twin even though his head is in a cryogenic freezing
44:42
tube, and he kills all his colleagues and completes his
44:45
work from the grave. Why?
44:46
Why is he so keen to complete his work from the grave?
44:50
Just, you know, enjoy existence in a tube.
44:54
I guess the answer is probably a couple of things.
44:58
Firstly, is not it free to continue on with Sterling
45:01
Rabel's research and finishing what the institute requires?
45:05
Because I mean, did Mulder and Scully charge him in this
45:08
respect or is he just free to continue on it?
45:11
That isn't said at all. At any point will Roland be
45:16
exonerated from the crimes that he's committed even though it
45:18
wasn't him? Because we don't know.
45:21
And also, as Roland brushes his hair before leaving the halfway
45:25
house, he rushes it in the same way that Arthur had always done.
45:30
So is Arthur actually gone or not?
45:34
So this is a really good episode again.
45:36
And for me, this is one that even though I've watched the
45:40
first Series A number of times over the years, this is an
45:43
episode that I didn't recall exactly what was going to
45:46
happen. So it was almost like watching a
45:49
new episode of The X-Files for me.
45:51
And I'm sure there will be others as I move along through
45:54
the series that this does occur because I guess remembering
45:58
every single episode is over a number of years is sometimes
46:02
very difficult, depending on how often it is that you watch it.
46:06
But this particular episode was actually one that I wasn't
46:10
completely familiar with, even though I know I've seen it and I
46:14
know I've seen it probably at least four or five times.
46:16
So that made it probably more enjoyable than I expected.
46:22
So I ranked this a four out of five.
46:24
Again, it's enjoyable enough. It has a premise where of
46:27
course, it's the monster of the week episode again that has the
46:31
basic problem and then a solution.
46:33
And then even Scully gets on board a little bit this time,
46:36
which is rather impressive. So we've arrived at our first
46:46
destination, the final episode of Season 1, episode number 24,
46:53
entitled The Erlin Meyer Flask, directed by RW Goodwin and
47:01
written by our showrunner Chris Carter, his 9th writing credit
47:06
for the season. All right, boys and girls, this
47:10
is a biggie. This is the episode that sets up
47:13
the future series of The X-Files, the one that gives us a
47:17
determined direction as to how the whole series is going to
47:21
flesh out. Because prior to this episode,
47:24
we've had just 4 episodes that could be completely related to
47:28
what we describe as the overarching alien mythology
47:31
Canon of the series. And they all involve UFOs and
47:35
alien technology of a type. But with the Ehrlen Meyer flask,
47:40
Chris Carter takes us to another level.
47:43
The level where we now have the government conspiracy coming to
47:47
the fore, the experimentation of alien hybrids, and what would be
47:52
extended into seasons two and three about the preparation
47:56
being taken for the colonization of Earth itself.
48:01
This is where the pennies begin to drop.
48:03
This is the episode that says, hey, hope you've enjoyed our
48:07
Monsters of the Week episodes because they've been fun.
48:10
But this is where we are really heading.
48:14
There's so much cramed into this episode, so much important
48:18
stuff, that sometimes it is easy to get lost as it all plays out
48:22
on the screen. So let's just look at the
48:26
important stuff. We start off where Mulder gets a
48:30
call from Deep Throat that only says, are you watching Channel
48:34
8? This shows a new newscast of a
48:38
missing man whom authorities are chasing what they can with no
48:41
further information until Scully puts her foot down and insists
48:46
that they stop as they as she feels that Deep Throat is
48:51
looting Mulder around by his, well, let's say nose, and that
48:57
Deep Throat is just getting his jollies by poking him all the
49:00
time and sending him off on little missions without the
49:03
smallest amount of information. And she feels that this is
49:07
becoming a joke now. Though Mulder is less convinced
49:11
of this, he does also show his frustration when Deep Throat
49:15
turns up again and admonishes him for not being as thorough
49:20
and as investigative as he would like.
49:23
And much like the last time we saw these two together, there is
49:26
a rising tension. For Mulder, it's the
49:29
frustration. And for Deep Throat, I think
49:33
it's anxiety, Deep Throat says. I fear you have become too
49:38
dependent on me before finishing off with Trust me, you have
49:42
never been closer. So the supposed suicide.
49:46
Of Doctor. Barubi, who the agents had just
49:49
met the previous day, leads Mulder to find a flask with the
49:53
name Purity Control labeled on the bottom.
49:57
So while Scully goes off to find out what the contents of this
50:01
flask might hold, Mulder looks to track down the elusive Dr.
50:05
Secure who was the missing man on the news broadcast.
50:11
So now. Both agents find.
50:13
Things that irrevocably change the series and their own
50:17
investigations forever. Molder tracks down an address.
50:21
From which phone records? Show Berubi has been dialing
50:24
constantly. A storage facility that Molder
50:27
is able to access with keys from Berubi's desk, and what he finds
50:32
is a massive reveal. 6 tanks, five with human subjects alive
50:38
in them, and one that is empty. Meanwhile, in.
50:43
What is probably. The biggest scene of the series
50:46
so far, Scully has had the contents of the flask examined
50:50
by Doctor Carpenter, and then in this scene, Carpenter reveals
50:55
that the purity controlled flask contains a sample of bacteria
50:59
that doesn't exist anywhere in nature and can only be described
51:04
as extraterrestrial. And the look on Scully's face
51:08
when she's finally confronted by a fellow scientist who says the
51:13
same words that her partner has been saying to her for the last
51:16
12 months is priceless. Finally, she's confronted by the
51:21
fact that they are dealing with an alien species of some
51:25
description and she needs to completely adjust her own
51:29
thoughts and feelings. Kitchen scummy.
51:39
Oh, go to Carpenter. I fell.
51:41
Asleep. I've done some work.
51:47
These are the DNA sequences from the bacteria.
51:49
Sample you brought in, you seem to know something about
51:52
molecular biology. You know what you're looking at.
51:55
Yeah, I think those are genes, right?
51:58
They're called base pairs. Each pair is made-up of
52:01
something called a nucleotide. Only four nucleotides exist in
52:05
DNA. Four.
52:07
And through some miracle of design that we have yet to
52:10
fathom, every living thing is created out of these four basic
52:15
building blocks. What you're looking at?
52:18
It's a. Sequence of genes from the
52:20
bacteria sample. Normally we'd find no gaps in
52:26
the sequence, but. With these bacteria.
52:28
We do. Why is that?
52:32
I don't know why. But I tell you.
52:35
Under any other circumstances, my first call would have been to
52:38
the government. What exactly did you find?
52:43
1/5 and 6th DNA nucleotide. A new base pair?
52:49
Agent Scully, what you are looking at?
52:53
It exists nowhere in nature. It would have to be, by
52:58
definition, extraterrestrial. So when Scully and Mulda arrive
53:08
together to. The storage facility for Mulda
53:10
to show her what he's found. Scully tries to apologize to
53:13
Mulda for not believing him, she says.
53:17
I just wanted to say I was wrong.
53:19
I've always held science as sacred, but after what I saw
53:23
last night, I don't know what to believe.
53:27
Of course, they walk into the storage facility and the tanks
53:30
are gone, and guess who is there instead?
53:33
Oh, it's Deep Throat again. Of course he is, and he actually
53:36
scolds Scully as well. He reveals that Berubi was
53:41
experimenting on humans with extraterrestrial viruses.
53:46
There were six terminally ill volunteers that were
53:49
experimented on and all had begun recovering and when it was
53:53
ordered that they all be destroyed because they were
53:55
recovering so quickly, Barubi actually helped Doctor Sikke
53:59
escape. And while Scully is still.
54:02
Off side with death. Throat about his knowledge and
54:04
his methods, Mulder vows to continue the search.
54:09
So Scully goes back to Georgetown where she discovers
54:12
that Carpenter and her whole family have been bumped off in a
54:16
tragic car accident, and Mulder tracks down Sikke before Sakir
54:22
is shot dead in front of him. And Mulder is overcome by the
54:25
toxic fumes of his escaping alien biology and as a result,
54:29
he has captured. So then we have.
54:33
Scully, who's met by deep. Throat and Deep Throat says that
54:36
the only way to get Mulder back is to bargain, and so he sets
54:39
Scully up with enough information to get.
54:44
Into a government. Institution to obtain an alien
54:48
foetus inside to use as a trading tool.
54:52
So now Scully has not only heard from another scientist of
54:55
extraterrestrial bacteria, she has now seen an alien foetus as
55:00
well. So it's all happening for Scully
55:02
in this episode. The exchange is set, and while
55:06
Scully is insistent that she does it, Deep Throat is more
55:11
insistent and as well as being more frantic and almost overtly
55:17
angry, frustrated that Scully still does not see the truth
55:21
about how far and how deep this all runs.
55:25
So he takes the fetus, the exchange is made, Mulder is
55:29
pushed out of the van and Deep Throat is assassinated.
55:33
And in his dying words to Scully, he simply says exactly
55:37
as he's written at the start of the episode, Trust no one.
55:43
And then we. Finally finished this episode
55:45
with two weeks. Later, Mulder, who's fully
55:47
healed and recovered, rings Scully to say that The X-Files
55:50
have been shut down and that they are to be reassigned to
55:54
separate departments. And that's it.
55:59
It's the end of the X. Files HA Psych had you fooled.
56:05
It's not the end of anything except this series, so let's
56:10
unpack everything. In summation, this episode truly
56:14
sets up for the main event going forward.
56:18
This is not just going to be a show about monsters of the week
56:21
and strange phenomena. This is going to be an ongoing
56:24
story about government conspiracies, alien technology,
56:28
and hybrids. Along with threats of a full on
56:31
alien invasion and takeover of Earth.
56:35
We've seen the first use of alien hybrid technology and its
56:38
use in humans. We have our introduction to the
56:42
crew cut man for the first time who we saw was taking care of
56:47
Mulder and and Sicare and he will grace our presence again.
56:52
We have now seen the suspension tanks, and we have seen the way
56:56
the alien biology can affect humans to exposure to its
56:59
toxicity. The big reveal of the episode is
57:03
that Scully has finally been irrevocably exposed to the
57:07
evidence of extraterrestrial life, and that there indeed is a
57:10
conspiracy within the government to do with it.
57:14
And while she will still have several things to grapple with
57:17
over the next season, this genie is now out of the bottle.
57:21
And the final act is the bumping off of Deep Throat.
57:25
Who though? His actual interest in Mulder
57:27
and his work has come under question.
57:29
Throughout his appearances through Season 1, he has been
57:33
the conduit for the alien mythology conspiracy, and now
57:37
that conduit has been eliminated.
57:40
And with The X-Files now closed, where does this leave Mulder and
57:43
Scully moving forward All in all?
57:48
This is a. Terrific episode.
57:50
Chris Carter has pulled a lot of things together to make sure
57:53
this first series ends with a bang, not only exposing more of
57:57
this arc than any other episode in season 1, but also closing
58:01
several doors just as though appearing to be opened.
58:05
And this was. On 1st.
58:07
Viewing over 30 years ago. Just so amazing and frustrating
58:11
in the same instant we had to wait months for the start of
58:16
series two to discover just what would happen next with our
58:19
intrepid agents and just how all of this would or could be
58:23
resolved. All of this concludes with what
58:27
for me, is the best episode of The X-Files to this point.
58:32
It had everything. It had so many reveals and then
58:35
so many closures and surprises. Just bloody marvels.
58:47
And so it's the end of Season 1. And the end of this episode and
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the end of the first part of our journey together.
58:55
So I hope you've enjoyed reliving these episodes from one
58:59
of the great science fiction TV series.
59:02
You could feel the show really starting to cook by the end of
59:05
the series. These last five episodes have
59:07
been really interesting for the most part and have revealed a
59:11
bit more each episode about the Mulder and Scully partnership.
59:15
So as you've already worked out these five episodes, I had
59:19
three, five out of five episodes and two, four out of five
59:23
episodes. So I really think they'd found
59:26
their feet. So thanks for listening and.
59:29
For being a part of this. Now, if you would like to get
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59:34
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1:00:27
where we'll be heading in Season 2, and I'll talk about my
1:00:30
ranking of those episodes from Season 1.
1:00:33
So if you feel like joining in, get your lists written down and
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let's see if we're on the same wavelength.
1:00:40
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1:00:43
in, and I hope you're having as much fun as I am in reliving
1:00:46
this magnificent sci-fi series. And we'll go again next episode
1:00:50
when I return with revisiting The X-Files, where the truth is
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out there and trust no one. The.