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