Deep Throat
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The X-Files 7.2, The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati: The Last Temptation of Mulder
Summary: Mulder’s having a dream about a couple on a beach with their little boy. In reality, a doctor is telling his mother that his brain is being destroyed. Teena’s upset that they’re sedating Mulder so much that he’s basically a zombie. She asks him for a sign that he can hear her. He can,… Continue reading
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The X-Files 4.7, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man: Sympathy for the Devil
Summary: A title card quotes to us from Henry IV, Part 1: “For nothing can seem foul to those that win.” CSM arrives at an abandoned warehouse, lighting up with a lighter that says “trust no one.” He opens his briefcase and uses the technology inside to eavesdrop on Mulder, Scully, and the Lone Gunmen.… Continue reading
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The X-Files 3.1, The Blessing Way: In Space, No One Can Hear You Blather
Summary: As the fire burns in the boxcar in the New Mexico desert, Hosteen voices over that there’s an old Navajo saying about how something only lives as long as the last person who remembers it. That means trusting memory over history. “History serves only those who seek to control it,” and we should beware… Continue reading
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The X-Files 1.24, The Erlenmeyer Flask: Opening Pandora’s Box
Summary: A man leads police on a car chase that ends at a waterfront warehouse. The man gets out to run, fighting off the police with their own batons. One officer tases him, then shoots him, but that doesn’t slow him down. The man jumps in the water and disappears, leaving behind some sort of… Continue reading
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The X-Files 1.17, E.B.E.: “I’m Wondering Which Lie to Believe”
Summary: A pilot flies over Iraq, surprised to see something else darting through the sky 25 miles away. It doesn’t show up on radar. Suddenly there’s a bright light, and the pilot’s crew warns that he’s being attacked. The pilot fires and hits the object. In a NATO surveillance station on the Turkey/Iraq border, soldiers… Continue reading
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The X-Files 1.16, Young at Heart: Mulder vs. the One-Armed Man
Summary: At Tashmoo Federal Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, it’s 1989. Ooh, we’ve gone back in time! How exciting! A man in a wheelchair in the infirmary hears screaming from down the hall and goes to investigate. He comes across a doctor operating on a prisoner named John Barnett. The doctor insists that Barnett, who’s recently… Continue reading
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The X-Files 1.11, Eve: Experimenting With Eugenics? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Summary: It’s a quiet morning in Greenwich, Connecticut, and a little girl is standing in a driveway, clutching a stuffed animal. A couple jogging by stops and asks the girl, Teena, where her father is. She tells them that he needed time alone. The jogging husband finds Teena’s father, Joel, sitting on a swing. He’s… Continue reading
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The X-Files 1.10, Fallen Angel: Mad Max
Summary: There are flames in the woods of Townsend, Wisconsin, but the sheriff’s deputy who arrives on the scene is unable to radio the fire department. Meanwhile, the U.S. Space Surveillance Center in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, spots something in the sky. It was first spotted near Connecticut, but now it’s over Townsend. A higher-up announces… Continue reading
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The X-Files 1.7, Ghost in the Machine: Does Not Compute
Summary: At the Eurisko World Headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia (hey, that’s near me!), a guy named Brad fights with a higher-up about how the higher-up is killing the company. Later, the higher-up, Benjamin Drake, is watched as he types up a press release discussing Brad’s termination. A project called COS is also being terminated.… Continue reading
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The X-Files 1.2, Deep Throat: Take Me to the Pilot
Summary: Near Ellens Air Base in Idaho, a group of military police swarm on a house. The woman of the house arrives and learns that her husband has violated military procedure. The MPs burst inside and find their man, Colonel Robert Budahas, cowering in a corner, his whole body red. In D.C., Scully and Mulder… Continue reading
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