THE X-FILES Archive. Everything there is to know about the groundbreaking science fiction series
…eat his own desk” if the The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. co-star Bruce Campbell will not become a television star of the first magnitude. It was not stated whether consumption took place, but it was The X-Files, not The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., that turned out to be the biggest hit in the history of the studio.
Season 3
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1. THE BLESSING AWAY
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2. PAPER-CLIP
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3. D.P.O.
A young boy from a small town has an extraordinary skill – he can attract lightning. He uses them to deal with anyone who steps on his toes. This ability gives him a sense of power and the awareness of superiority over everyone. It is a distinguishing factor and makes the title D.P.O. ceases to be a gray, average loser. However, even the power to wield thunder does not give him what he wants most – the attention of his boss’s wife teacher. In fact, even Zeus the Stormcloak had to resort to stratagems to seduce the women he chose… The great Giovanni Ribisi played the title role, and Jack Black played the role of his best friend.
4. CLYDE BRUCKMAN’S FINAL REPOSE
If I had to choose one favorite among all the X-Files episodes, my choice would be this one. And not because of the strictly plot layer, which does not differ from typical solutions in this series, but because of the reflections that this episode brings with it. The main character is Clyde Bruckman – a modest insurance agent, endowed with an extraordinary ability to examine the circumstances of someone’s death. He accidentally gets entangled in Scully and Mulder’s murder case of fortune tellers and tarot readers. What, in fact, is human free will if the circumstances of our lives are foreseeable in advance, and therefore predetermined? If we are given a glimpse into the future, is our only choice to interpret – do we think that we will die or how much happiness we had before? If Clyde Bruckman knew how he was going to die, how conscious was his choice? Did he have any choice at all? Coin toss or blind luck, chance or destiny – do they really guide our lives, or do we only sometimes have this impression? Or do they only drive if we let them? Since everything happens for a reason – somewhere this chain of causes must have its beginning – or its end. More about this episode – click to read.
5. THE LIST
Moments before execution, the convict in the electric chair announces that he will return from beyond the grave to wreak bloody vengeance in a fiery anger on all those who had a connection with his conviction. And it could be considered the delusions of a madman, were it not for the fact that the prophecy is beginning to come true.
6. TOO SHY
Women suffering from their fatness and looking for love via the Internet find an interlocutor who seems to fulfill their dream of an ideal man. He seems to be a shy, calm and affectionate individual who accepts them for who they are, including their overweight. Unfortunately, the online heart hunter is by no means a prince charming, but a serial killer who needs to survive what used to make poor women complex – their extensive adipose tissue.
7. THE WALK
High-ranking officers – war veterans from Korea – are haunted by bad luck. They describe encounters with a spectral soldier who apparently has one goal – to take revenge by taking everything they love from his victims, and not let them die, lest they manage to free themselves from this nightmare. Why does one of the soldiers staying at the veterans’ care facility stubbornly refuse to undergo any treatment and refuses to put on prosthetics in place of amputated arms and legs? Mulder suspects that this crippled man may have acquired the ability to leave his own body.
8. OUBLIETTE
The word “oubliette” comes from the French “oublier” meaning to forget. The word itself is also a term for a dungeon or bunker that can only be accessed from above. When a young girl is abducted from her home by a psychopath obsessed with her, miles away, fast-food worker Lucy Householder collapses to the ground in a faint. He has a severe nosebleed and mumbles the words “no one will destroy us”. It turns out that the woman herself was once a victim of kidnapping and for years her torturer imprisoned her in the basement. Scully suspects that the woman was involved in the kidnapping, but Mulder’s theory is different – he believes that Lucy has a strange psychic connection with the abducted girl, that she can experience her emotions and may be the only person who will lead the agents to the kidnapper. However, Lucy does not want to cooperate with the FBI – the memories are too painful for her and she wants to finally forget about her experiences.
9. NISEI
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Tagline: Apology Is Policy
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11. REVELATIONS
There is a series of murders of preachers who, during sermons, kidnapped the faithful with both inspired words and stigmata appearing on their hands. All of these instances of alleged blessing turn out to be forgeries. However, the little boy Kevin, whose hands also showed the wounds of the crucified Christ, is by no means a fraud. Maybe he is the one marked? Agents Mulder and Scully take it upon themselves to protect a boy from a mysterious maniac killer. For Scully, this is an opportunity to come to terms with her own faith and reflect on what religion really means to her. Did some higher power actually assign an agent to protect Kevin? Are we really dealing with manifestations of holiness and damnation, or are they just manifestations of religious mania? The demonic figure of the “respectable man” who will come to “bring the doom” bears the name of Gates. This is a clear allusion to the conspiracy theory that sees Billy Gates as the incarnation of the new Antichrist.
12. WAR OF THE COPROPHAGES
Mulder investigates wave deaths in a small town. All the corpses were covered with an abundance of cockroaches. While Washington-based Scully has a scientific explanation for each case, Mulder – looking closely at the case and in the pleasant company of entomologist Dr. Bambi Berenbaum – believes that the insects may be of extraterrestrial origin.
13. SYZYGY
From the Latin “syzygia” – conjunction, connection. A series of strange deaths occur among young people in a small town. Mulder and Scully are tasked with investigating whether this has anything to do with Satan worship. It turns out, however, that not Satanists, but cosmic energy are behind the events in the town. The extremely rare conjunction of Mercury, Mars and Uranus triggers strange instincts in everyone, and it centers precisely on two teenagers born on the same day in 1979 with an extremely biting opposition of Jupiter and Uranus in the horoscope.
14. GROTESQUE
A very dark episode showing the danger of staring into the eye of madness. After a long and exhausting investigation, Mulder’s former supervisor from the Quantico days has finally caught the culprit in a series of extremely brutal murders of young men. However, the nightmare is not over yet – someone is continuing the murderer’s work. Mulder undertakes to solve the mystery, coming face to face with the darkest demons inhabiting the human mind.
15. PIPER MARU
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16. APOCRYPHA
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17. PUSHER
Robert Moddell, who openly admits to having committed more than a dozen contract murders, inexplicably manipulates the people around him, persuading them to do things they don’t want to do. An analysis of Moddell’s medical records reveals that he is suffering from a brain tumor and is, according to Scully, practically dying. Because he knows this, he is a formidable opponent – he has nothing to lose. He soon draws Mulder into a dangerous game.
18. TESO DOS BICHOS
An urn with the ashes of the legendary shaman Amaru is discovered during an excavation in Ecuador. Despite the opposition of the local community, which considers disturbing the peace of the deceased to be unacceptable, the urn ends up in the museum. Soon, people who had contact with Amaru’s remains begin to die.
19. HELL MONEY
“Devil’s money” given by the Chinese to demons, according to local beliefs, are supposed to appease the spirits and provide peace to the living. The episode deals with an investigation in Chinatown where people with a mysterious commonality are dying – everyone is missing an organ. It turns out, however, that there is more to the case than just the “ordinary” trade in organs on the black market. Driven to the extreme, people take part in a terrifying lottery in which their own lives and health are at stake. One of them is Hsin, ready to risk everything to enable the treatment of his seriously ill daughter. One of the roles was played by the then virtually unknown Lucy Liu (as Lucy Alexis Liu).
20. JOSE CHUNG’S “FROM OUTER SPACE”
An excellent and incredibly funny episode that is equal parts self-parody, mockery and perversely cynical analysis of the phenomena that underlie the premise of the series – UFOs, abductions and a government conspiracy to hide evidence of extraterrestrial life. Popular writer Jose Chung plans to write a book about the UFO phenomenon at the request of publishers. To this end, he discusses with an admirer of his work – agent Dana Scully – the details of a recent investigation into the alleged abduction of two teenagers by aliens. This episode is a satire of everything: abduction accounts, conspiracy-obsessed maniacs, New Age, misinterpretation of the truth and government manipulation.
21. AVATAR
Vice Principal Skinner finds himself in a lot of trouble. A chance encounter with a woman he met in a bar ends up being charged with murder. Mulder and Scully seek to clear their superior’s name, and learn a great deal about Skinner’s private life while pondering jealous demons and trouble sleeping. The basic conclusion, however, is one – someone is manipulating the evidence and wants to frame the protector of the X-Files.
22. QUAGMIRE
Local legends in a certain lakeside town are full of tales of a water monster that attacks those who unwittingly venture into its territory. However, it seems that the monster has expanded the limits of its operation and is no longer limited to water, but also attacks on land. The sad reason may be the increasingly strong human interference in the environment, which has upset the balance of the ecosystem.
23. WETWIRED
To what extent is mind control possible with subliminal information, and whether the government has undertaken (or is undertaking) such experiments on citizens is one of the more popular issues considered by conspiracy theorists. In this episode of the X-Files, there is a suggestion that subliminal information in high concentration can fuel subconscious fears and fears so much that they materialize in a visible form. In the course of the investigation, Scully also becomes a victim of such manipulation. Her trust in Mulder is severely tested.
24. TALITHA CUMI
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