Thank God this is the only timeline where Abe Weissman can kill people with his shadow.
An(other) interesting premise marred by characters behaving stupidly. It's a bit too vague. It left us... in the dark. Despite these flaws, it's passable. Just disappointing, as it easily could've been better. Content is king.
We are familiar particle accelerator from series like the flash. It accelerates electrons or protons to high energies.
In this episode, we saw a scientist. Who was willing to die rather than government had such a power which he built after years of hard-working.
But in the end, because of mulder , goverment (maybe not but probably the guy is working for government) captured him. That man who is helping mulder is not like deep throat. He protects mulder but also he protects and helps the goverment and secret operations. So he can not care about lifes.
In the final scene, the tear that came from doctor's eye was very tragic. They will get what they want at last and they will kill him and they will use this technology to destroy more people.
the ending makes me think of a clockwork orange.
This is Vince GIlligan's first episode for the show. Dr. Banton is involved in a freak accident in a particle acceleration and now anyone his shadow touches is vaporized or broken down (or something). Banton is taken by X and experiments are performed on him, well, more like he's bombarded by strobe lights in a lab. The camera zooms in on his face and a tear streams down it as a sound effects of pulsing lights runs through the end credits, which is quite eerie.
This was not as good as I remember it being the first time I watched it, but the ending really saved it for me.
Secondary Characters in this episode: X, Dr. Chester Ray Banton
Interessante Folge mit dem Schauspieler den viele als "Monk" kennen.
Scully: Sees impossible evidence about people being instantly cremated into the ground
Scully: Then sees the perpetrator was involved in a highly technical and dangerous experiment. Then ALSO sees his shadow burned into the wall
Scully: "Nah it's all just coincedence and delusion. Nothing paranormal going on with him. Anyway let's go"
At least Mulder had some sense in believing the situation and wanting more to be done, but still, he could have said to the detectives something along these lines: "This guy was involved in a highly dangerous experiment. He is a professor of physics, you can check his credentials and the lead scientist he was involved in an experiment, and it went wrong, and it's caused a type of radioactivity on him (he's lying about the radioactivity instead of instant shadow cremation to help sell it more). You need to take special measures in order to prevent anyone else from dying (or he could he say you need a quarentine unit, or he could call in specialist FBI help). We've already seen evidence from the radioactivity with the victims deaths, including two cops who had guns on him, showing this is an ABSOLUTELY DANGEROUS SITUATION"
But nah, Mulder and Scully are like "Anyway, nevermind, he's all yours, bye. Oh btw keep him in soft light all the way of the journey there and when he's there keep in soft light (never explains why or reasoning like i mentioned, he just throws it out there)."
Ugh.
At least Mulder then contacts his source about it... But doesn't tell him the truth about the guy's abilities... Which then caused two innocent deaths, and prevented his source from capturing the guy, which would have spared more innocent deaths like with the detective.
Ugh.
I enjoyed the episode overall, as seen by my rating, but i have some problems with it like those mentioned above.
Shout by ElliotVIP 6BlockedParentSpoilers2018-11-20T23:34:26Z
Another great episode in a really strong run that makes up the back half of season 2. Tony Shalhoub is great as the paranoid and troubled genius, Dr Banton, and the special effects for the deaths inflicted by his shadow still look cool over 20 years later.