The X-Files : Season X (Spoilers!)
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I can't stop watching the first few seconds. It's like an episode of "Scrubs"
I like one of the comments
Looks like Mulder's days in Californication left quite a mark on him xD
It was pills. From the dialog, she obtained them from clinical trials which would presumably be concentrated form. Which is why Mulder asked her. He knew as an MD that she could get it.
I think it was Einstein covering for Einstein, really.
Real govt. agents would've hauled out orders/jurisdiction papers to prove what they were saying was their actual mission. But I don't recall them running away - they just stood outside and guarded the door, until there was some kind of threat that required the evacuation of the hospital. So it seems they were real govt. agents who were trying to use their status to get unsanctioned revenge. Although one of them definitely did speak to the other in some middle eastern language, which was another weird detail since neither looked middle eastern.
Even so - why would the terrorists have any interest in 'cleaning up' the kid? They shout their deeds from the rooftops of the world - they're not afraid of people finding out what they did. And he was a vegetable anyway.
If it had really been a placebo, then Einstein wouldn't have freaked out when she saw Mulder take the first one.
I agree. Also, having him fly all the way to Texas just to "punk" him (as Mulder suggested after he arrived) or artificially prove his idea had no merit -- that seems counter to everything else we were shown about the Einstein character.
On a related note, in the final act, Mulder pulls down his shirt in front of the bathroom mirror to examine two marks on his body.
What were those marks caused by? A psychosomatic effect of truly believing that Agent Einstein was hitting him with a riding crop in his hallucination? Hickeys from those old ladies mobbing him on the dance floor? Something else entirely?
Strange episode but in the end it worked for me. I was perpetually clinching with the powerful case story then relaxing and enjoying the humor of the subplot. It just all worked as entertainment is supposed to, imo.
I hope this doesn't mean the end for Mulder and Scully but if they go that route I won't automatically boycott future episodes sight unseen. There are tons of new conspiracy and ancient alien theories to mine new material from.
I hope this doesn't mean the end for Mulder and Scully but if they go that route I won't automatically boycott future episodes sight unseen. There are tons of new conspiracy and ancient alien theories to mine new material from.
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That confused me too.
That doesn't make sense. Why would she have given them to him in the first place if she didn't expect him to take them?
The whole point of the story was that the terrorist was so far gone he couldn't possibly be interrogated. Something they could easily see just by looking at him, also, so they had no reason to even try to push back and get into arguments with FBI agents, especially since actual FBI agents could arrest them and have real suspects to interrogate if they suspected anything.
Not to mention - if the terrorists actually suspected the kid might talk somehow, they wouldn't have been hanging around full force in their standard haunt to be all rolled up in one go.
Your guess is as good as mine. Neither way actually makes any sense. The episode really was a mess.
The agents that barged in on Miller and Scully were Homeland Security agents; fake agents wouldn't have made it through the guards posted outside that, moments later, stopped Agent Einstein on her way in.
The Homeland Security agents were there for "retribution" (Miller accuses them of this) and requested Miller and Scully to call their superior, presumably to get the two FBI agents away from the patient so the Homeland Security guys could kill him.
One HS agent said the patient "isn't human anymore. By my definition, he's already dead," implying that if he were to die while Scully and Miller were making their calls, it wouldn't technically be murder. Just them meting out justice, by their own rationale.
Miller took pictures of the two HS agents to identify them if the patient did die and remove any plausible deniability on their part that the HS agents were ever in the patient's room.
I have two theories on the Homeland Security guys speaking in a foreign language to one another.
1) As Homeland Security agents assigned (?) to a case involving a suspect that only spoke Arabic, they each were most likely fluent speakers. Unaware that Miller was also fluent, they spoke to each other in Arabic to hide their true agenda in front of the FBI agents. After hearing their conversation, Miller whips out his phone to take their pictures so we can assume that their discussion included taking illegal actions against the patient.
2) Just before they speak in another language (I don't know if it's been verified anywhere that they were speaking authentic Arabic), the camera rests on the xenophobic nurse, so we possibly "see" their whispered conversation through her POV. Given her later remarks about her conspiracy beliefs and the bombing's links to illegal immigrants, the HS agents murmured conversation could simply have been misconstrued by her as government agents secretly speaking in Arabic to better self-confirm her "Make America Great Again" theories.
The Homeland Security agents were there for "retribution" (Miller accuses them of this) and requested Miller and Scully to call their superior, presumably to get the two FBI agents away from the patient so the Homeland Security guys could kill him.
One HS agent said the patient "isn't human anymore. By my definition, he's already dead," implying that if he were to die while Scully and Miller were making their calls, it wouldn't technically be murder. Just them meting out justice, by their own rationale.
Miller took pictures of the two HS agents to identify them if the patient did die and remove any plausible deniability on their part that the HS agents were ever in the patient's room.
I have two theories on the Homeland Security guys speaking in a foreign language to one another.
1) As Homeland Security agents assigned (?) to a case involving a suspect that only spoke Arabic, they each were most likely fluent speakers. Unaware that Miller was also fluent, they spoke to each other in Arabic to hide their true agenda in front of the FBI agents. After hearing their conversation, Miller whips out his phone to take their pictures so we can assume that their discussion included taking illegal actions against the patient.
2) Just before they speak in another language (I don't know if it's been verified anywhere that they were speaking authentic Arabic), the camera rests on the xenophobic nurse, so we possibly "see" their whispered conversation through her POV. Given her later remarks about her conspiracy beliefs and the bombing's links to illegal immigrants, the HS agents murmured conversation could simply have been misconstrued by her as government agents secretly speaking in Arabic to better self-confirm her "Make America Great Again" theories.
Your first possibility there was pretty much what I thought.
IGN has some new pictures up for Monday's episode (they're the ones dated today).
IGN has some new pictures up for Monday's episode (they're the ones dated today).
The pictures give us our first look at Reyes, and show Scully working with Miller and Einstein without Mulder. I was kind of surprised to see Miller and Einstein again, I didn't realize they were sticking around. I'm also wonder if there is any significance to the lack of Mulder in all of the pictures.
based on the promos it looks like Mulder is spending a lot of time with CSM in the finale.
Wait a minute, so those are an actual mystery? I just assumed they were a bit of old X-Files continuity that I had forgotten or wasn't aware of.
They didn't seem to be the right shape to have been caused by a riding crop (though I wouldn't know), though they were in the right place. If it's a mystery, maybe it's a sign that Mulder has some ominous medical news coming up next week.
