I’m re-watching some of The X-Files series over from the beginning and trying post a write-up about one episode a week.
Episode two brings us back into a reoccurring focus throughout the series, military cover ups. Good stuff. I think this kind of things appealed to me more from having grown up at West Point.
In this one we find out that a test pilot had some sort of psychotic breakdown. The military took him away and his wife declared him missing.
As the episode begins I couldn’t help but notice that Scully had a haircut since the pilot episode. And the color is lighter. I also zoned in on the colors and styles of her suits in these earlier episodes. A lot of the jackets were double breasted plaids in light or bright colors—oh and shoulder pads, naturally. Such an 80s feel.
Anyway, back to the plot…
Deep Throat makes his debut in this episode by approaching Mulder in the bathroom of a bar and warning him to stay away from this case. Mulder of course will have none of that and off to Ellens Air Base they go.
There they find another test pilot that was returned to his wife, only he’s not right in the head. He keeps plucking out his own hair in a creepy makes you raise your eyebrow in wonder kinda way. Eventually the missing pilot that started them on this case is returned to his wife. However, certain information has been extrapolated from his brain, making him seem somewhat a shell of himself to his wife.
My favorite part of this episode is when they stumble upon Seth Green’s entertaining stoner character. He informs Mulder of the location of the test flight site—a place Mulder presumes has crafts made of UFO technology.
This juicy nugget is of course too much for him to resist and he finds his way into the testing area just in time to see a triangular craft fly over him. It hovers over him and shines a few lights, creating a classic X-Files image, I’ve featured up top there. Yeah, good stuff!
Of course the military guys have to cover things up so they capture him and suck that memory from his mind too.
In a crazy cool move by Scully, she holds a base security guy at gun point and demands an exchange for Mulder’s release.
Deep Throat makes an appearance again at the end, reminding Mulder that that he can be of assistance to him, but only if it furthers his own cause. This makes it a beginning of a troublesome relationship of spotty “help,” but hey, at least it’s something. In this scene, there is also an amazing moment when Mulder asks if they are already here. Deep Throat’s response, “Mr. Mulder, They’ve been here for a long, long time.”
That’s that. End fangirl ramble.
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