Sands through the glass...

I love the fact that you think of me as a "strong, independent, black, woman," but if you looked at the cracks, you would see that I'm just a broken little girl.

Echosmith - Bright [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

Heard this on the radio this morning, and kinda fell in love with it.  Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

Overdue

I know it's been a couple of weeks since I've posted, but I've honestly not had that much opportunity to watch and review episodes.  I am hoping that I will be able to resume the daily blog around the first of next week (and that I'll be able to watch multiple episodes to play catch up on where I should actually be...)  In the mean time, I hope that you all are doing well, and staying safe!

Until next time. xoxo

Episode 1.14 "Gender Bender"

Aired January 21. 1994

        R.I.P.:   H. R. Giger (Swiss Artist, known for creating the Aliens aesthetic (WooHoo!!!).  Died 5/12/14)
                               This was the picture that can be seen twice in the discotheque. 

Start off by saying that this was the first episode where "Music by Mark Snow" appeared in the opening credits, until now it had been at the end of the closing credits.

Mulder and Scully go to Massachusetts to check out a murder that matches multiple others before hand.  The victims are all Young, Healthy, adults that appear to have died of massive coronaries after intercourse. (bow chicka bow wow, I know I'm secretly 12, LoL)  Mulder's explanation; pheromones, Scully is skeptical; surprise, surprise.   Within the first 5 minutes of the episode we have a goof/error.  The dead guy evidently is ticklish or something and can't keep from twitch/blinking his eyes when Mulder is examining the pink frothy stuff on the vic's mouth. (yeah that was gross when it was happening)   And we also get another one of our beloved Chris Carter birthday shout-outs.  The victim was seen entering the room at 10:13 with a female, but a male (not the vic) leaves later.  Hmmm
 
After finding evidence of some rare mud, which is used to make pottery by a group called the Kindred, (a cult,sorry,) a sect of Mennonite/Amish?? that live in the wilderness of Massachusetts, Mulder and Scully go to investigate.  (I'm having visions of Rumspringa gone wild...)  They arrive at the town closest to the Kindred and ask questions.  Mulder follows a larger group into the feed store as Scully stays outside with Brother Andrew.  (Eep! She full on starts to get pheromone Jedi mind-tricked by him!)  It is agreed that Mulder and Scully will locate their home.  There's a scene where Mulder and Scully are using the map to try to find this remote location, they're lost-ish and Mulder wads the map up, kicks it, and Scully catches it.  Coming from a continuity perspective, I want to know how many times they had to shoot that scene to get it that perfect!

The Kindred let Mulder and Scully visit their homes AFTER they give up their weapons, which they do (And this isn't the first time they've relinquished their guns.  I've noticed that every time they do, they take the magazines out of the guns, they NEVER empty the chamber, that means technically they still have one shot in the guy folks!)  Mulder and Scully have dinner with the Kindred and ask questions about their lifestyle and talk about the case.  (Brother Andrew appears to know something, and has a thing for Scully)  One of the elders has a coughing fit (I think you are supposed to assume he's about to die) and they lead Mulder and Scully back to the trail so they can leave.  Mulder wants more answers so they sneak back and watch as the group heads into the barn...carrying what appears to be the body of the old guy.  Part of the group leaves, and Mulder decides to sneak into the barn to explore further.  Scully watches from what has to be the most horribly shot angle (cow utters, really?)  and she is then taken by Brother Andrew, who takes her into his room, and reveals that he thinks his childhood friend Martin is to blame.  (he'd fallen in love with the outside world, and that he was "different") 

Mulder investigates the barn, follows the cellar down a creepy tunnel, watches at the men put what looks like lard on the dead guy, he has to hide, (again with the strange angles, the hole he jumps through to hide, looks like a vagina, which I guess makes sense if you consider they've lubed the dead guy up for rebirth...but still ick!) Mulder escapes back to rescue Scully who is still with Brother Andrew, and as Mulder puts it attempts to "do the wild-thing" with her.  Mulder and Scully FINALLY leave.

Next scene is back at the discotheque and we see a young man...WAIT that's Nicholas Lea (aww he's so pretty, in case you don't know who I'm talking about he's Alex Krycek...he has also appeared on Arrow, Once Upon a Time and Supernatural!  Only he's just some random soldier in this episode.  According to IMDb, this will be his first of twenty four appearances, he's definitely a regular throughout the series)  Sidetracked...He appears to be the newest victim.  Yep definitely the newest victim as he and Marty (the name of the episode is Gender Bender.) are caught making out in the parking lot.  Mulder and Scully question him and he reveals that he was with a woman, but after she hit the cop, it was a man (Martin).  Mulder and Scully follow credit card information to a skeezy hotel, and we get to witness Marty again (she/he just killed someone else, so I'm guessing that sex triggers the change, but that would mean that there was a dead female somewhere as well?) and another dead male.   First she knocks Scully out, Mulder follows her down the hall where she knocks him out.  Scully, back on her feet, follows her out of the building.  Next there are strange shadows on the walls and the Kindred have captured Marty/Martin/I'm confused, which one is it now?  Brother Andrew is Jedi mind-tricking Scully and then Mulder and Scully are alone in the alley way. 

Mulder and Scully go back to Massachusetts to look for the Kindred, but everything is gone, the barn is concreted? up.  The cops come in to tell Mulder they've found something.  Mulder and Scully go to the corn field to find a crop circle.  So wait they were aliens all along? Now I'm having flashes of 3d Rock From the Sun, where Sally was actually a male in her body and Tommy was an old guy in Joseph Gordon Levitt's body.   Was the Giger painting in the discotheque some sort of clue???  And to repeat my question from the Eve episode, why do aliens leave crop circles???  Do they have nothing better to do than play in fields?  So many unanswered questions!

Sorry this post was so all over the place.  I've been sidetracked most of the day.  While I've not been busy busy, I've had to do just enough to make me scattered.  LoL

That's all folks, I think my head is about to split open from confusion with this episode.  Until tomorrow.  xoxo

Episode 1.13 "Beyond the Sea"

Aired:  January 7, 1994


What stuck out to me most about this episode was that Mulder was the more skeptical one and Scully took the leaps of faith.  Despite everything she witnessed, however, she decided to believe logically.  So it still ended up being another episode of Mulder trying to make Scully believe in the something else.

Episode starts out with Scully and her mom and dad finishing off Christmas celebration.  (BTW, her dad, Don S. Davis was part of the reason I was addicted to SG-1, the other reason was obviously Corporal MacGuyver, LoL)  We have our first Moby Dick reference (She calls him Ahab, he calls her Starbuck).  Next scene, Scully is woken up by her father sitting, creepily, in her chair.  He is talking to her, but no words are coming out of his mouth.  Scully's mother calls and lets her know that her father has died.  (Oh it's a feels episode!)

Mulder prepares to go to Raleigh NC, for a case.  Two teens have disappeared a year after another couple had disappeared in a similar serial killer fashion.  Mulder has been called in because there is an inmate (Lee Boggs) that claims to have knowledge of the case and will assist if Mulder comes and gets him a stay of execution.   Mulder is surprised that Scully isn't taking the time off for bereavement.  She jokes and makes one of our infamous porn references (something about an adult video store), lets Mulder know that the funeral is at noon, and that she will be going to NC with him. 

Once in Raleigh, we meet Boggs (played by Brad Dourif, probably best known for his portrayal of Wormtongue in the Lord of the Rings series, but also known by me because he was the original Dark One, Zoso, before Rumpelstiltskin killed him and took the dagger in Once Upon a Time.  I think it's his destiny to ALWAYS play a creepy meth addict looking mother fucker!  This time is no exception)  Boggs claims to have clairvoyance from the first time he went to the gas chamber and that he is in contact with the spirits that can help with the case.  Mulder scoffs! (what? He even tells Boggs "I want to believe" and yet he fakes evidence to get Boggs to give information.)  Meanwhile Scully (who's paying attention because she's seeing visions of her dead father and seeing signs that Boggs might have access to him) follows the clues Boggs gave and found real evidence of the abducted couple.  Mulder believes that Boggs somehow is connected with the abductions.  Not heeding Boggs's warnings, Mulder gets shot. Scully is able to lie to Boggs, get the information she needs and finds the bad guy, saves the couple and avoids death (Boggs tells her to not chase the devil, she sees the picture on the wall, literally, and the bad guy falls to his death which would have been her fate had she not listened.) Boggs promises to tell Scully what her father wanted her to know if she showed up to his execution, but is surprised when she isn't there.  She is with Mulder in his hospital room, explaining to Mulder why Boggs was a fraud, and how he could have found the information that she had received from him.  (she is too logically Spock-ish for her own good sometimes!  Seriously sometimes it bothers me how she can witness something and still have an explanation for why it wasn't what she saw!)

That's it for another episode.  Until tomorrow...xoxo

Episode 1.12 "Fire"

Aired December 17,1993

This episode is probably my favorite that I've watched so far...  Main reason?

                                                                  (not my picture!)

Yes ladies and gentlemen, that's Mark Shepard, in one of his first roles  (look how young he is!).  He played Cecil L'Ively (aka Bob the Caretaker)  Those of you who don't know who Shepard is, SHAME ON YOU!!  Besides being the Ring Director in Chuck, and Canton Delaware in a couple of Doctor Who episodes, Shepard has been in DOZENS of things.  His most current role, and yeah, my favorite, is Crowley on Supernatural!  The first shot you have of him in this episode he's all young and has facial hair.  And spoiler, I think that it's only fitting that the King of Hell's weirdo power is to set people on fire.  (foreshadowing much?)

So the episode basically is about Mulder's Scotland Yard ex-lover (Phoebe Green, wonder if the Friends writers were fans? Yeah it was Phoebe Buffay and Rachel Green, but still...) needing Mulder's help on a case.  (Bitch kisses my Mulder, multiple times in the episode!  And yep there's some Scully jealously going on, you can read it a mile away, LoL)  Back to the episode... 3 British politicians have spontaneously burst into flames, and she's afraid that the man she's working for will be next. (Evidently the hooker is kissing on him too.  Which results in sad Mulder, but that's at the end of the scene, so OOPS, SPOILER)  

Mulder tells Scully that he can handle this case on his own, not wanting to put Scully through Phoebe's torture.  (She knew he was terrified of fire, yet came to him with the case because she's an evil bitch.)  Scully decides to dig on her own and discovers some crucial evidence (Cecil L'Ively has been showing up in past and there's some sort of accelerant being used) 

There's a scene where they are at an embassy event and Mulder and Phoebe are dancing (and kissing, I want to know what her dress straps are made of, they look like electrical tape!) Scully is watching them, and sees that the driver (L'Ively) is also watching them.  There's a fire upstairs where the children (twin boys, eep!)  are staying, and Mulder runs up to attempt to save them.  Of course his phobia knocks him out, and he is carried down the stairs by the firemen. While L'Ively rescues the children.   The best part about that scene?  Mulder shirtless (man he's shirtless a bunch in the series so far) and Scully is taking care of him.  Stupid bitch-face, Phoebe comes in and looks jealous. 

Phoebe and the family decide that they need to return home to England, Scully finds out that L'Ively is the driver, and Mulder goes to check on Phoebe (here's where she's being overly friendly with the boss...) The family discovers the 1) usual driver is dead, burnt up in the bathroom, 2) Bob the caretaker is actually Cecil;  and then, Mulder has to actually save the kids from yet another fire.  As Cecil is running away he catches fire.  Finally, last scene, despite having 5th & 6th degree burns, L'Ively is in a hypobaric chamber and expected to make a full recovery.  The end.  LoL

That's all for this episode, until tomorrow (next time...) xoxo

Episode 1.11 "Eve"

Aired:  December 10, 1993

Once upon a time (and I've mentioned this multiple times throughout the years I've had any blogs) my brother told me that the song that made him think of me was Eve 6's "Inside Out".  I'm not sure how I feel about that, I like the song well enough, but if you actually listen to the lyrics, I just wonder why they make him think of me.  What does this have to do with anything?  The band Eve 6 took their name from this episode of X-Files.

I vaguely remember when I watched this episode the 1st time, I thought that kids are creepy, I still feel that way.  You know that if there are kids in horror films, there's going to be bad stuff.  (Look at the Shining!) This episode was no exception!  

The episode starts with a couple jogging, as they start to slow down they see a little girl standing in the driveway.  They go ask her where her father is and find him dead on the swing set, 2 puncture wounds on the neck and drained of blood (Vampire? But it's daylight and this is years from Twilight and the Vampire Diaries...)  As Mulder and Scully go to investigate, Mulder claims that the presence of Digitalis and the exsanguinated bodies are similar to the cattle mutilations he's seen with alien reports.  Scully's retort cracked me up, "Mulder, Why would alien beings travel light years to Earth in order to play doctor on cattle?" (It cracked me up because I've always questioned  why they come and create circles in the corn?)  At the scene of the crime, Scully receives information that a similar murder (same MO, and technically takes place at the same exact moment) has taken place 3000 miles away on the other coast.  They travel westward to investigate and discover that the daughter of this murder victim is IDENTICAL to the other little girl.  During all of this someone kidnaps the girls.

As the episode progresses, through information given to Mulder by Deep Throat, (Welcome Back Jerry Hardin, this is your 4th of 11 visits, and we still haven't ever heard you referred to as this, when/why do we call him Deep Throat?) we learn that the Litchfield experiments created the Adams and Eves.  There were 10 Eve's, they were basically crazy and suicidal (homicidal)  The majority of the Eves were dead, 1 was locked up, and 2 were M.I.A.  Mulder and Scully visit her, and she shows them a picture that looks like the girls they are working to find (creepy because they look like a YOUNG Linda Hamilton). She tells them that 2 others escaped years after she was locked up.  One of the Eves they were looking for had worked with a clinic and had experimented to create more Eves, hence the girls.

The girls reveal to the Eve that has taken them that they have a mental link, and then kill her as Mulder and Scully arrive to rescue them.  They tell Mulder and Scully that there were 2 Eves and that the other had planned on killing them all, but ran away when they heard the cops.  As Mulder and Scully are taking the girls back to custody, they make a bathroom break and stop for sodas.  Mulder finds traces of the Digitalis and viola, it really has been the girls all along.  They capture the girls and lock them up with the Eve that was already at the institution.   The remaining Eve comes to visit...

And that's all she wrote for the day.  Until next time.  xoxo

Episode 1.10 "Fallen Angel"

Well it took longer than an hour to get here, but...

Aired: November 19, 1993

This episode was back to the government conspiracy theme.  It starts off with a UFO(?) crash and a quarentine.  Deep Throat is back, this time giving Mulder inside information.  D.T. tells Mulder about the crash and that they are looking for something that escaped the craft. 

Mulder travels, alone, to Wisconsin to investigate, sneaks onto the crash site, and is captured by Army guys with guns.  My favorite quote from this episode happens when the Army guys are interrogating Mulder, and telling him there was a toxic spill.  Mulder in his infinite snarkiness, says "That's a lot of fire power to protect Mother Nature"  The Army guy locks Mulder up and we meet Max Fenig, (NICAP alien/conspiracy hunter, fan of Fox Mulder... Played by Scott Bellis, this is his 1st of 3 episodes as Max, but the last episode that we see him for 4 years.) and he gives us the most infamous line of the SERIES "Trust No one!"

Scully shows up to "bail" Mulder out, and lets him know that there will be a hearing to shut down the X-Files, that they need to return home immediately.  After this we get the first glimpse of the escaped pilot of the crashed UFO/whatever it is supposed to be; it reminded me of the cloaked Predators from the Predator movies.

Next scene is more about Max, who plays Mulder and Scully the transmission of the distress call from the crash scene.  Scully discovers that Max is on anti-psychotic/seizure drugs.  Mulder and Scully go talk to the firefighter's wife and she tells them she can't talk to them because they will withhold her husbands pension and she needs it for their son.  They then go to talk to the doctor who was in charge the night of the crash and discovered that he had been threatened as well.  During this time the Army guys attempt to catch the pilot and several get burned/die.  They are taken to the hospital and the doctor tells the Army guy that he needs Scully's assistance.  Mulder returns to motel and finds Max having a seizure, he reveals that he's had epilepsy since he was 10.  During this scene Mulder finds a scar behind Max's RIGHT ear, but later when giving his report to Scully, he says that it was on Max's Left ear... Mulder explains to Scully that this scar is a sign that Max had been abducted.

Mulder follows/finds Max in a warehouse and Max begs Mulder not to let "them take him."  Scully is outside with the Army guys who have tracked Max and the escaped pilot to the warehouse.  Max screams, Mulder is tossed aside, Mulder wakes to find Max suspended midair, bright light, Max is gone. (sad!)

Next scene we're back in DC and Scully is being interviewed by the committee that wants to shut down the X-Files project.  During Mulder's investigation scene, he is told that the Army guys found Max 2 hours later, and that he was dead (LIES!  as I already said, we will see Max again in 1997...)

The committee decides to shut down the X-Files, but the decision is overturned by Deep Throat...(What position does he hold?  I have completely forgotten how badass he was...)

And that's the end of Fallen Angel.  Until tomorrow.  xoxo

Episode 1.9 "Space"

Aired November 12, 1993

This episode mostly made me remember that I witnessed the Challenger explosion.  I was in 6th grade, and my grandparents were visiting from New Hampshire, my mother had let me stay home from school because they were in, and my grandmother and I were sitting on the sofa watching (along with the rest of the world) as the shuttle launched, and then exploded...  Much later the blame boiled down to a faulty O-ring, this episode mentions that.

"Space" starts out with an interview as the NASA mission has found water on Mars and what appears to be a facial structure.  Then goes to the shuttle launch, which is aborted 3 seconds before lift-off. 

Mulder and Scully go to Huston after NASA worker, Michelle Generoo (Hey, I know who she is...that's Moira Queen from Arrow, AKA Susanna Thompson also known for being Army Lt. Col. Hollis Mann on NCIS and the Borg Queen on Star Trek Voyager..wow, I'm a nerd.) shows them evidence that the space shuttle might have been sabotaged.  She wishes to stop the relaunch because her husband will be aboard the shuttle, and she is afraid for him. (Challenger aborted launch, then rescheduled days later... Not liking where this episode is going at the moment.)

Mulder gets to meet General M.A. Belt (one of Mulder's childhood heroes), an astronaut from the Gemini flight, that had trouble when he was out in space years before.  There's a couple of hokey "creepy" face overlays that makes you wonder if it's a ghost or some non-corporal alien, there's more issues with the shuttle and telemetry.  And in the end, it is implied that General Belt (unknowingly) might have been responsible of the sabotage. (In the end he commits suicide/was murdered by the space entity.)

If you've seen the movie SpaceCamp (it's from 1986, and is about a group of kids at space camp that accidentally get launched into space on the shuttle and have to make it home.  The film came out shortly (6 months) after the Challenger exploded, and I remember thinking, this hits too close to home) then you understand the flight crews reactions and also cheer when things go correctly.  I fully admit, I cheered along with them when Michelle's husband, David, FINALLY answers and jokingly asks if she knows of a good place to eat in Albuquerque. 

That was pretty much all for this one.  You could easily re-watch Challenger footage and the SpaceCamp movie and experience the same amount to anxiety that this episode gives you. 

Now to try to stay on track and watch Fallen Angel.  Back in a little bit.  xoxo

Heads up...

Today is the Monday from Hell at work.  Unless something seriously changes, I won't be able to view today's episode of X-Files.  I will make sure to attempt to get back on track tomorrow.  (Maybe even try to get 2 in)

Until Later...xoxo

Episode 1.8 "Ice"

Aired: November 5, 1993

Honestly if you have seen John Carpenter's Thing, (the original is the best. I recently found out that the "remake" isn't actually a remake at all, but a sequel.  When I was under the impression that the new version was a remake, I was pissed., but honestly after watching them both in sequence, they did a nice job.) you've got the jist of this episode.  So knowing that, the whole episode was pretty predictable.

An Arctic Ice Core project drills the deepest core sample and unearths an ancient micro-organism (alien).  Somehow it infects the team, and the workers go crazy and kill each other.  The episode did at least start with some eye-candy, one of the original workers (he's shirtless and has a NICE body.  I don't even mind the fact that he's a little bloody...)  is sending a video transmission, letting viewers know that "we're not who we are, it goes not further than this..." and then he's attacked.  (I just realized he's shirtless in this scene for the transmission, but when Mulder is watching the transmission, the worker is wearing a shirt...hmm)  After he frees himself from the attacker, he and an equally eye-pleasing guy (casting was on fire this episode, because later we get a shirtless Mulder) are at a stand off, where they decide it's best to commit a double suicide than risk what ever caused their team to go crazy to be released into the world.

Mulder and Scully go to Alaska to investigate with a scientist and a couple of doctors (and a pilot, who looks like a neanderthal version of Steven Tyler, named Bear).  Mulder and the pilot are attacked by a dog, spoiler the pilot is infected, Mulder apparently is not.  Eww, there's a movement in the back of Bear's neck (makes me think of the black oil stuff later on in the series).  The doctors and Scully end up killing Bear taking the tapeworm looking thing out of him.  (The face Scully makes is comical and makes you wonder how she's supposed to be a medical examiner) The group decides it's best to get some rest, but also agree that they need to make sure no one else is infected at the time. (Am I the only one that got a lesbian vibe from Scully and the female doctor during their examination?  I know it was a we're relieved kinda thing but it was still questionable)  The group then settles in for the night.  Scully barricades herself in her room.  Mulder hears a door and goes to investigate, where finds the geeky scientist dead, naturally the rest of the group assumes he did it, so they lock him up. 

While Mulder is locked up the doctors and Scully discover that if you infect the already infected blood, it kills the organism.  Yay, they save the dog.  They conclude the only way to cure Mulder is to put the wormy looking thing in him.  Scully goes in to the room where they are keeping Mulder to tell him the plan.  He tells her he would have let her check him, but she'd pulled the gun on him and he didn't trust the others.  She inspects him and finds that he hasn't been infected the entire time.  (Kinda of a sexy moment between them as he grabs her to check the back of her neck, budding sexual tension between the duo? LoL) Now the question is, who is the infected person.  Ends up being the other female.  Mulder and Scully pin her down, and the male doctor is able get the wormy thing into her system, which essentially kills both organisms.  We end with the evac picking them up and quarantining the female and the dog.  Mulder states he's going to go back, but will be prepared this time, only to be informed that they had already burned the place to the ground.

That's all folks.  Hope everyone has a great weekend, Until Monday.  xoxo

Episode 1.7 "Ghost in the Machine"

Aired:  October 29, 1993.

The episode starts off with 2 men (One corporate looking the other a bit "scruffier") arguing about computer stuff, and the one storms out visibly upset.  The corporate man is about to leave for the evening when he discovers that the sink is overflowing in his bathroom (Two things that I questioned, 1st WHO has a phone right beside their sink?  and 2nd  WHO has the need for a swipe card to get out of their bathroom??) as he is trying to unclog the sink, the phone rings, next he tries to leave but the swipe card won't grant him access.  He is then electrocuted, being blown back into the mirror.  (When we get to the crime scene, scene, there's one of those comical tape outlines that you ONLY see on screen.)

We then get to meet Mulder's old partner (pre-X-files), Agent Jerry Lamana, who asks for Mulder's assistance on the case.  After checking on things at the Eurisko company, Mulder suspects Brad Wilczek (the scruffy hacker guy).  Lamana steals Mulder's profile, claiming he needs a win.  (He screwed up in the past and was punished so he thinks that solving this case will help him out.)  Mulder enlists the help of Deep Throat (welcome back Jerry Hardin), and Jerry goes to the Eurisko company to search for more clues, and to follow Wilczek, The very Hal/2001:  Space Odyssey sounding Central Operating System murders him in front of Brad.  (I'm having a bad Terminator, Rise of the Machines, kinda vibe coming from this episode.  Smart Houses might be my new phobia, in all the shows I've ever seen them mentioned (Eureka's Sarah, and even some of the technology in Doctor Who) something bad happens.  ALMOST makes me wanna go anti-technology, ALMOST) Mulder learns that Wilczek created the thinking computer and the Defense Department wants his technology.

Now convinced that Wilczek is innocent and the Adaptive Network (COS) has gone murderous, Mulder talks Wilczek into creating a virus to destroy the system.  He then attempts to sneak into Eurisko on his own, meanwhile however, Scully's computer/internet starts on it's own and she traces a call to the company.  So she meets Mulder, where they break in to upload a virus.  Taking precautions to not end up like the first dead guy and Jerry, Mulder and Scully climb 29 flights of stairs, fry the door sensor and cover the surveillance camera.  But apparently the door is still locked, so Mulder helps Scully into the duct work to crawl over and be able to unlock the door from the other side.  While she is in the duct work, the Security guy opens the door to let Mulder into the lab.  Then pulls a gun on Mulder, revealing that he's actually part of the Defense Department.  It bothers me that Mulder didn't check on Scully, who was probably wishing she was Tooms crammed into the airway, and let her know he had gotten the door open. (Guess we needed the scene of Scully being blown backwards towards the fan that would kill her had she not fired her gun, for the first time ever, at it. At some point, she is able to somehow free herself and ambush the Security/Defense guy.  I suppose had he called to her then Bad Guy wouldn't have been so easy to get the drop on.)  Mulder uploads the virus and that's the end of the COS...or is it?

Seriously that's how it ended:  the Defense guy is looking at the camera, telling his team they only have 6 hours until they have to scrap the computer and then the red light ("of death", sorry family thing...) comes on and the screen goes to ending credits.

My little project is now over a week old and I'm starting to realize that a daily blog probably was CRAZY, but I'm enjoying the X-Files revisit, so until tomorrow.  xoxo

Episode 1.6 "Shadows"

One to-day is worth two to-morrows -- Ben Franklin


Originally airing on October 22, 1993.  Another "monster/paranormal" episode, and now we're starting to get back to the episodes, I remember falling in love with.

This one starts out with a woman crying (she looks familiar, I need to remember to IMDb her...) as she's cleaning out an office, we learn that this is Lauren Kyte and the office belonged to Howard Graves, her late boss.  He was a Defense Department Contractor at HTG Industrial Technologies, and he had evidently committed suicide a couple of weeks prior.  Later, we see Lauren taking money out of an ATM, and is then attacked by two men.  

Next scene is Mulder and Scully in an autopsy room checking out the bodies of the men that had attacked Lauren, and two other secret government agents (more like pod people, absolutely no emotion!!! The female looks like a ridged Mindy Kaling) We discover that the 2 men were terrorists and that while they are dead, their throats and larynges were crushed from the inside, they still had "residual electrostatic charge"  Mulder suspects an X-File, (more specifically telekinesis, "how Carrie got even at the prom?")  but "willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation" with the other agents. 

Scully and Mulder find evidence, from the ATM surveillance, that Lauren (man, who is she, she looks familiar) may have been involved with the dead terrorists, and that there might have been one more person involved.  They go to question her at her house.  (Hey, that's the same house that was the detective lived in, in Squeeze) Lauren denies knowing the terrorists, but after being pressed, admits that she had gotten away and ran.  Not wanting to cause trouble, she didn't file a report.  She claims that she doesn't recognize the other figure in the photo.  As Mulder and Scully leave the car turns into Christine and tries to kill them.  (Did I miss something, did King have something to do with this episode?  LoL)

In the process of staking Lauren out, Mulder and Scully see her get upset when maintenance tries to paint over Graves' parking space  (LMFAO, the name of the person they are replacing him with...Tom Braidwood!  For those who don't know, he will be Frohike, and at this time one of the Assistant Directors of the series.) Lauren goes to see the other boss, to put in her two weeks notice (I think I had that ugly flowery dress she's wearing...) and we have a continuity Oops, the other secretary spills her coffee, Lauren pulls several tissues out of the box, crosses around to help clean up the spill and the box of tissues is no longer on the desk.  The other boss comes out to check what the commotion was and Lauren tells him she's leaving.  He then gets creepy and attacks her, THEN something attacks him. 

After investigating some more, Mulder is able to identify the man in the photo as Graves, as a consequence,  Scully is convinced that he has faked his death.  Lauren however is given a vision, which reveals that Howard was actually murdered. Turns out, the other boss knew of terrorist activity with the company and had Howard killed because he was going to go public with the information.  (That's where the other uptight agents come into play) 

Another (yeah the terrorists had been sent to take her out)  attempt on Lauren's life, gives us Mulder rushing in to save the damsel in distress, where he witnesses the attacker suspended midair, being choked.  Scully FINALLY arrives (she's always just a little late...) Lauren tells the agents what they need to search HTG Industrial Technologies, unfortunately they don't find anything, until Mulder, Lauren, and the other boss (I probably should have written down his name) are alone in his office, with the help of Howard they find a floppy disc that has the information they were looking for.  Again, Scully shows up seconds late and misses the tiny tornado and flying letter opener. 

The final scene is Lauren working in an office in the mid-west.  Vibrations cause a coffee cup to shake after Lauren is reprimanded for taking 25 minutes to get a report done.  The other woman covers the coffee and comments that every time a truck drives by that occurs, but we are left to wonder if perhaps Lauren's guardian angel is still with her.

That's it for Shadows. 

Oh well, IMDb, says that Lauren is Lisa Waltz, and with the exception of single roles in multiple shows I have watched throughout the years, there's nothing that stands out as "She's this person.."  Maybe it is just that she has had so many bit parts in those shows, but she looks so familiar.  Also according to IMDb the bad guy, boss's name was Robert Dorlund. (played by Barry Primus)  I love IMDb!!!

 Until tomorrow.  xoxo

Episode 1.5 "Jersey Devil"

Originally Aired October 8, 1993.  So far the monster episodes aren't wowing me like I remember.  (They are partly to blame for my love of Supernatural's earlier seasons!) Something I did notice is that the shows I watch currently use multiple actors from throughout the series.  This episode alone had 2 actors that had both had parts on Supernatural and Once Upon a Time.

This episode is pretty much what the title implies, it's about the Jersey Devil, only not the version of the one I remember growing up with.  (Part human, part Devil.  This one was more Caveman/Big Foot)  It starts out with a family out in the woods of New Jersey running over something, it ends up being a male.  Mulder talks Scully into a trip to Atlantic City, where we learn that the local PD aren't wanting to help because they know there is something out there, but fear tourism will drop if it becomes known. 

Honestly that's about it for the episode, Mulder sleeps out in the streets like a homeless person, and gets locked up because he didn't leave when the local sheriff told him to, and Scully goes on a date.  She then goes to bail Mulder out/pick him up from jail, they go investigate and find a "hot" cave woman.  The local PD shoot and kill her.  Mulder suspects that there was offspring.  The last scene is a father and son walking in the woods, father telling the boy about the Jersey Devil legend, as the camera closes in on a small wild child.

Besides seeing familiar faces from new shows, the only thing of note with this episode is that it's the first hint of Mulder's porn addiction.  (He's "reading" a Hanky Panky article when Scully first sees him in the episode.)  Until tomorrow, ciao. xoxo

Episode 1.4 "Conduit"

Originally aired October 1, 1993

The episode starts off with a family camping (young boy and older teen-girl asleep, outside under the stars, and mother in camper) by a lake in the woods, there's an earthquake(?) that knocks the mother off of her bunk in the camper, a bright light,  followed by the little boy calling out for his mom to come out of the camper because his sister is missing (Little boy alone, while sister is abducted... Samantha-centric episode alert!).  We next see Scully talking with Section Chief Blevins (this is his 2nd appearance of 5 in the series) where we find that Mulder has requested to go to Sioux City to investigate Ruby Morris' disappearance.  His linking factor was that the mother was also an alien abductee from years before. 

Upon investigation, Mulder learns that the little brother, Kevin, hears sounds from the T.V. (Kids and white staticy T.V.s, this episode just got Poltergeist creepy!) that he writes down, to Mulder it appears just to be 1s and 0s.  The NSA becomes incredibly interested in the binary drawings, breaking into Scully's motel room at night and talking to a shirtless Mulder (thank you!!!) about the origin of the papers; claiming that they are classified documents.  We learn later they are really just snippets of things like DaVinci's Vitruvian Man drawing, DNA, and segments of Brandenburg's Concerto. (hmm, aren't these things that we've sent up to space in case there really is something out there? Maybe she says that in this episode and I missed it, but I don't think it was mentioned.  I think there's several references throughout media these days, Doctor Who, and Mars Attack just to name a couple that talk about it though) Mulder and Scully receive a tip that Ruby was going to run off with her boyfriend because she was pregnant, they go to a biker bar to find the boyfriend. (The bartender is Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds), there they learn the boyfriend hasn't showed up for a couple of days.

Summing up the end, the informant was actually the pregnant one, she killed the boyfriend and buried him in the woods, but revealed that Ruby wasn't even there when she was following them.  The binary code when placed on the ground showed a picture of Ruby's face.  Mulder and Scully go back to the lake to find the Morris' including Ruby.  The last scene is Scully listening to Mulder's tapes about Samantha, where we have the 1st occasion of him saying "I want to believe." 

That's all for this episode, until tomorrow.  xoxo