What do you mean you didn’t call me? Oh, man, I am going to kick their asses. I’m in Las Vegas, aren’t you? You called me. Where are you? What do you mean, “What hotel? Las Vegas. Scully: Hello, Mulder? Can you hear me? I’m at the hotel. It’s a fantastic episode showing how weird and twisted The X-Files could get, although it still has heart at the end when Mulder and Scully hold hands in the ambulance. I really like how they handled the multiple endings where you think they made it out okay and it throws them right back into near death. I love this episode for the twists and how we realize along side of Scully and Mulder that they are actually caught in the underground mushroom lair of yellow ooze. This episode is quite the trip (just realized the title is a double entendre) that you will have to watch one or two other times to fully understand it and realize what is reality and what is the hallucinations caused by the mushroom spores. Mulder finds the couple alive and all signs point to an alien abduction. The area where their skeletons were found is known for UFO activity, so Mulder and Scully go there to investigate it. Written by: Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan & John Shiban Directed by: Kim Manners Original Air Date: May 9th, 1999 Principal Setting: Asheville, Tennessee Episode Summary:Ī young married couple’s skeletons are found together on a field in the mountains after only being reported missing for three days. You tell me I’m not being scientifically rigorous and that I’m off my nut, and then in the end who turns out to be right like 98.9% of the time? I just think I’ve… earned the benefit of the doubt here.
I mean, every time I bring you a new case we go through this perfunctory dance. Mulder: Scully, in six years, how… how often have I been wrong? No, seriously. Scully: Mulder, can’t you just for once, just… for the novelty of it, come up with the simplest explanation, the most logical one, instead of automatically jumping to UFOs or Bigfoot or…? I grade this a little bit higher since it is a revealing season finale, I just think they are taking the whole alien plot a bit too far. I also hate, hate Diana Fowley and her conniving, lying ways. The defense to these complaints could be the fact it is a science fiction show, and the writers wanting Scully to go on this journey alone and open her eyes to what science may not be able to explain. It’s nice to have Scully discover more truths that lead her closer to believing in extraterrestrial life, but I just wish Mulder would have been more involved. I also don’t like the lack of involvement of Mulder starting towards the end of this episode and into the next two eps of Season 7, due to this extraterrestrial artifact messing with his brain. I don’t appreciate the anti-religious undertones and how the plot deals heavily with the fact aliens are the ones that somehow created humans and brought us to our existence. This is the first season finale that I don’t like, mainly because it goes against all that I believe in creationism and how we got here. The agents look to uncover the origin of this mysterious artifact and to find out why it is having a singular effect on Mulder. When a rubbing of these engravings is shown to Mulder, confusing noises happen inside his head. Written by: Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by: Rob Bowman Original Air Date: May 1 6th, 1999 Principal Setting: Ivory Coast, Africa Episode Summary:Īn artifact with strange engravings on it is found off of the coast of Africa. What more could you possibly hope to do or to find? Scully: Mulder… look, after all you’ve done, after all you’ve uncovered - a conspiracy of men doing human experiments, men who are all now dead - you exposed their secrets.