Peter Boyle plays Bruckman as dismissive of his skill, believing it to be an inconvenience at best. Bonus points for the Stupendous Yappi, a Kreskin-like celebrity psychic who reads Mulder as the skeptic and Scully as the believer.
Fun fact: Bruckman tells Scully that she won't die, suggesting she is immortal. Episode writer Darin Morgan initially meant this to be a kindness on Bruckman's part, but later, Scully's alleged immortality becomes an issue in "Tithonus" and an off-hand joke in "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster. While Mulder has spent his entire life believing that she was abducted by aliens, he has dreams that lead him to discover the body of a dead little girl, buried in the woods.
It is soon discovered that she was a victim of John Lee Roche, a convicted pedophile already serving life for the murder of 13 girls. Roche used to cut a heart out of the clothing of his victims, and kept them in a book that investigators never found. Turns out that Roche had more victims, and got started earlier than the FBI previously thought.
This new time frame would mean that it was possible - even likely - that Samantha was one of his victims. Roche, mad that Mulder was the one who caught him, messes with Mulder's head, making him believe that Samantha could have been one of his victims. Mulder is so desperate for answers that he loses his objectivity and takes Roche out of prison, which leads Roche to escape, and abduct another little girl. Mulder shoots him dead, but is left with one remaining "paper heart" with no identification.
Fun fact: The scene in which Mulder sinks a half-court basket was done in one take. David Duchovny played basketball in college. An often underappreciated episode, this one centers on a genie who grants the most literal wishes. An idiot and his paraplegic brother discover the genie, and hijinks ensue.
Both brothers end up dead, and Mulder is the one who next discovers the genie. The genie has been around for years and is brutally bored with life and annoyed at the stupidity of humans. She tells him that most people make the mistake of making selfish wishes, so he wishes for world peace - and the genie makes all other humans on Earth disappear.
Mulder uses his second wish to undo his first wish, then sets about making his final wish perfect. In the end, he decides to use his last wish to do something truly selfless: release the genie from her miserable existence and allow her to live a human life - and have a human death. Stand-out scene: When Scully discovers that she, indeed, has an invisible corpse in her autopsy lab, she begins dusting it with powder.
With every dab of dust, she becomes giddier and giddier, like a child opening Christmas presents. It is a joy to see Scully so deliriously happy. A trip to an FBI "team building" seminar is interrupted when Mulder is distracted by a potential X-file. A small town in northern Florida is being stalked by an invisible forest creature that Mulder later theorizes might be an evolved version of the conquistadors that landed there years ago.
There are lots of opportunities for Mulder to make dry, Mulder-ish quips, and even Scully seemed more relaxed than in any previous episode, laughing at his jokes instead of just rolling her eyes.
This episode also has an infamous flirty scene with the agents, lost overnight in the forest. Mulder is injured, so Scully tries to keep him warm to stave off shock. They talk about deep things like life and death and about silly things Betty or Wilma? Then Scully tries to sing. The X-file in this episode was a little underwhelming, but the character moments make "Detour" a stand-out.
Shipper alert: I firmly believe that Scully was trying to come on to Mulder when she brought wine and cheese to his room. But Mulder was totally oblivious. Most series have terrible pilots. The acting is stiff and the story is inartfully set up to jam as much information as possible into the episode.
Not The X-Files. The X-Files takes its time, introduces us to agents Mulder and Scully, and shows us what kinds of weird stuff the show will cover. The information is doled out as needed over the course of the episode.
Plus, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have a natural chemistry that is electric. Mulder and Scully become the focus of a disinformation campaign when they attempt to trace the government's secret transport of an alien life form.
Director: William A. Votes: 4, Deep Throat tips Mulder to a critically important case involving a missing fugitive and the cloning of extraterrestrial viruses. Director: R. With the X-Files shut down, Mulder travels to Puerto Rico on a tip from his mentor in the Senate to uncover the reason behind the sudden reactivation of a remote long abandoned SETI-like communications station.
A former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator. Mulder and Agent Krycek are in a race against time to find and rescue abducted Scully before crazed Duane Barry can take her to what he believes to be his alien puppet masters. Mulder receives an encrypted computer disk containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the disk.
As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project. An "alien autopsy" videotape and a murder spark Mulder's search for a strange creature.
Scully looks for information about her disappearance. Votes: 3, Mulder becomes trapped aboard a train rigged with an explosive device. Scully searches for the truth behind the government's secret experiments. Scully recounts the investigation of an alleged UFO encounter for the famous quirky author Jose Chung's latest novel. UFOs were the stuff of fantasy. House-sitting for our parents, Nick had been looking out on the backyard under an April night sky when three bright lights, moving at a steady high speed, converged above the in-ground pool.
They stopped, according to him, snapping into place and hovering in a triangle formation before beginning to rotate. He hung up and sent me a video over email. They revolved on an invisible axis, just like Nick said, and disappeared. I played it over and over, a cold dread crawling up my spine, my muscles tensed ever so slightly in apprehension. My brain started doing gymnastics, trying to fit the image into a rational narrative. If this was real, whatever real meant in that moment, then it would change everything.
Intelligent engineering of unknown origin is up there with climate change and pandemics on the list of big deals for the human race. The next morning, at my customer-service call-centre job, I read the news in between answering phones. Apparently, there had been multiple UFO sightings the night before, all over southern Ontario. But reading about the encounters in print made the proposal of flying saucers difficult to square with my fluorescent nine-to-five present, working for an hourly wage in business-casual dress, selling tickets to the symphony.
Especially when there are videos. A ired from through , The X-Files was among the most popular American television dramas of its decade. Encountering vampires, haunted dolls, the Jersey Devil, and a time warp in the Bermuda Triangle, Mulder and Scully peppered their mystery-solving banter with spooky factoids and trivia along with a helping of fringe science that made even their goofier adventures seem just a little bit plausible. Remember how that Terminator -esque bad-guy alien who already looked like a Nazi joined up with the KKK to kill the nice black alien who just wants to play baseball?
How did this episode even happen? The Rosetta Stone—like artifact, which turns out to be a small chunk of an even larger maybe UFO buried in the sand whose markings include passages from the Bible and the Koran as well as the entire chemical sequence of the human genome, is clearly supposed to symbolize the optimistic theory that all life on Earth originated elsewhere in the universe, thus unifying all people as variations on the same theme.
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