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
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