Airing September 17, 1993, Deep Throat was our official "Hey there's a government conspiracy going on here" episode (yeah the pilot hinted with CSM and the metal implant, but until this episode that could have just been coincidence). It's also our first episode with theme music. (Ah Snow, thank you for your eerie music, that I'm pretty sure gave me nightmares at the time.)
The episode starts out with a team swarming a house, that we learn belongs to Col. Robert Budahas (that's a fun name to say), and that he has pretty much gone bonkers... Mulder gets a call from Scully, discovers that his phone is being tapped, meets her at a bar, where he then is introduced to a mysterious informant (the illustrious Deep Throat, played by Jerry Hardin, who makes 11 appearances as Mulder's tipster) that warns Mulder to leave the alien talk/X-Files alone. (Random...why do public bathrooms that have multiple stalls like that, have locks for the door?)
Mulder and Scully go to Idaho to investigate the mental breakdown and disappearances of Budahas and learn that he isn't the only test pilot to have been affected. Something strange is happening at the Ellen's Air Force Base (which BTW wasn't on Scully's government map, hmm...) Budahas is returned, but his wife is convinced that it really isn't her husband. Here we also get the Scully is super skeptical and tries explaining Budahas' breakdown as having legit medical reasons and that he possibly was a "wash-out" on some secret project. Which Mulder points out, that while the pilot probably wasn't driving a UFO, it was probably made out of parts of one, that alien technology could have been used, siting that Ellen's Air Base is where parts of a crashed UFO were sent back in the 50's
During the time Mulder is scoping out Ellen's, we have an "oops, continuity error" that happens. Scully is asleep in the car, something flies over, causing the rear window to shatter. Mulder goes to Scully, and they go to investigate, strange flying lights are seen, and then, 2 people are running/being chased away from the base. (Ah, young Seth Green with his long hair! I adore him! He is the first member of the "Harem House") Mulder and Scully take the couple out to eat and discuss what they saw, then in the morning they drop Seth and his girl at home, the window is no longer smashed! (Sorry sidetracked when it comes to Seth...) Mulder is now convinced that it's alien and Scully is positive that there's another explanation. After telling Scully that he's ready to leave, Mulder sneaks back onto the base only to be taken and drugged (possibly experimented on?) The next morning, Air base security, who posed as a reporter earlier, attempts to attack Scully, only she takes his gun and forces him to get Mulder back for her, who can't remember how he got to where he was. Meanwhile Mrs. Budahas changes her story that her husband is better now. (Mulder speculates that the government got to her...)
We end the episode with Scully typing out her report, basically saying that there weren't any conclusive answers, and Mulder, after running laps, being visited by the informant again (When do we start calling him Deep Throat?) who confirms that "Mr Mulder, THEY'VE been here for a Long, Long time"
That's pretty much it for the Deep Throat episode. Something I did notice was the Chris Carter references throughout the episode. While Scully is reading the microfiche, the author's name on the article she's reading is C. Carter. She also investigates a license plate number CC1356, which Chris Carter's birthday is October 13, 1956 so c.c.13/56. And later in her report she lists the case file as DF101364, so another 10/13 reference... If I remember correctly we see the 10/13/56 reference made a few more times throughout the series. (Ah Carter, if you can't do the Hitchcock/Stan Lee/Stephen King thing and be in the actual filming, at least you can make references to yourself, you cheeky monkey!)
That's all til tomorrow. Until then. xoxo
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