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