An alien craft crashes in Wisconsin. Mulder investigates on his own and gets caught. He meets a UFO chaser named Max Fenig. There's an invisible alien running around and the military is trying to catch it. A mothership picks up the alien (I think) and picks up Max (I think) because Max had been abducted before (I think). Mulder gets in trouble with the FBI but Deep Throat, who had told Mulder that the space ship had crashed in the first place, gets him out of the jam.
Secondary characters in this episode: Max Fenig, Deep Throat
Aliens! Conspiracies! Spooky Mulder! After the awful last episode, this felt like a classic X-Files episode done better.
I thought the guy would be one of the geeks that would help Mulder later in the series. Sad that he got killed.
I've always said, Max's story would have been a way better movie than the 2nd X-Files film.
Storywise, that was one of the best episodes so far. The special effects were pretty bad though (I guess that's to be expected considering this aired... wow, 27 years ago), and except for the main cast, the acting was pretty bad too... Hopefully both will improve over the seasons?
One of the better/best episodes in season one. Poor Max Fenig.
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A very X-Files episode! It really digs into the true mythology of the show.
I loved seeing Mulder really standing up for his beliefs!
I'm very intrigued by Deep Throat