"I had the strength of your beliefs" ugly sobs
What a strong episode. The relationship between Scully and Mulder is just really outstanding... touching... and everything.
A lot of onions in this one.
Her mother makes a headstone after TWO EPISODES. Even if you stretch it the largest bounds of logical sense, that maybe it could have been MONTHS during those 2 episodes, it's still only MONTHS she's been missing, and she's already making a headstone.
So it seems Scully has been experimented on with alien DNA. So the people in charge left her at a hospital after they were finished... WITH EVIDENCE OF ALIEN DNA EXPERIMENTATION... No, that does not make sense. This organization was fanatical about not letting any of that kind of evidence get out into the public, and especially not to someone like Mulder (or the medical techs in the hospital) to figure out what's been done to her in regards to experimentation, DNA manipulation, and alien DNA mixing.
This organization knows she is going to die soon because of what they've done, so they RELEASE her back anyway, instead of killing her. And then later there is even more a lack of common sense when the smoking man supposedly kept her alive because he "liked her"
I didn't remember the writing of The X Files becoming so mixed. Or at least this early.
Although the setup to this storyline was faulty, the resulting execution works for the most part in this episode, as we see the jounrney and inner turmoil of Mulder. It wasn't enough in my view, we didn't get enough answers and he didn't go far enough, though he did go pretty far. Maybe it was the right decision in the end, as his inner emotional core might not be able to stomach or live with some of the things he might have done.
The episode works for the most part because of the depth presented and the dramatic events that unfold. Seeing Mulder's journey was riveting.
I was so hoping the aliens would keep Scully.
An episode that pushes the story forwards but it didn't really include a case of any kind.
Lots of dreamy sequences while Scully is in a coma. This one pretty much tries to pull the tears out of you, which I always dislike and there will be much more of in later seasons. X executes someone in front of Mulder. Cigarette-Smoking Man talks Mulder out of killing him. It was unexpected to see that CSM lives in a rundown old apartment. We see Scully's Dad in a dream sequence who tells her that it is not yet time for her to die. I think he actually says the words that he just mouthed in a dream sequence in Season One's "Beyond the Sea", which was kinda freaky. The Lone Gunman find that Scully was experimented on with the goal of dynamically changing her DNA to have it catalogue her. I'm assuming it's in an effort to not a have to use implants like she found in Duane Barry.
Secondary characters in this episode: Lone Gunmen, Cigarette-Smoking Man, X, Melissa Scully
Shout by SarahBlockedParentSpoilers2016-04-16T04:11:35Z
This was a very weird episode, the imagery of Scully in the boat and everyone else being on the dock was interesting though. Also, it seemed like someone maybe got a little too excited with the tape or the tape just didn't stick right in the nineties, and it seemed like half of it wasn't even doing anything.