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
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