I Want To Rewatch

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for a future season.

Mulder and Scully travel to Minneapolis to help a local FBI agent after several graves are exhumed and the bodies are desecrated. The agent suspects connections to UFO-related cattle mutilations, but Mulder thinks it’s just someone with a fetish. Scully has to grapple with her PTSD while Mulder is sure the perpetrator is going to escalate to murder and needs to be stopped before anyone is hurt.   

It's a spoiler that Tori is not a fan of, BTW, despite being the one who mentions it.

(Originally recorded: 09 May 2021)

(Originally released: 28 May 2021)

Links:   

“Officer Defends Giving Boy Back to Dahmer”, The New York Times, Aug. 26, 1991, Section A, Page 15  

The Unofficial X-Files Companion by N.E. Genge   

The Complete X-Files: Revised and Updated Edition by Matt Hurwitz & Chris Knowles  

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Brian Lowry  

Opening The X-Files: A Critical History of the Original Series by Darren Mooney  

The X-Files: The Official Archives: Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena by Paul Terry  

Music:  

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz  

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians  

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Everything old is new again.  

A police detective has a vision that helps her find the remains of an FBI agent who vanished in 1942 while working on a series of murders. Mulder and Scully arrive to figure out what happened to the agent and his partner all those years ago, but Mulder seems more interested in how this cop managed to locate the body. He believes she’s tapping into some psychic ability. And worse, it seems that the old series of murders has started again…  

And completely skipped a generation… okay, boomer.  

(Originally recorded: 02 May 2021)  

(Originally released: 21 May 2021)

Links:   

X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Louisa Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson  

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry  

Music:  

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz  

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians  

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It’s like Cocoon, but murdery!  

After a nurse says she was raped by an invisible spectre, but is sure it was a one of the patients at the nursing home where she works, Mulder and Scully investigate if this a case of spiritual projection or some other supernatural attack. While there, they notice the Alzheimer's patients are surprisingly lucid and seem to be improving. Is there something supernatural going on or is there a more mundane explanation?   

Or maybe a more confusing one?  

(Originally recorded: 25 April 2021) 

(Originally released: 14 May 2021) 

Links:  

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry  

Excelsis Dei | X-Files Wiki | Fandom  

Music:  

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz  

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians  

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In the crossover that never happened, but still did, kind of...  

Mulder and Scully travel to a small town in Wisconsin, where kids are waking up naked in the woods with writing on their backs. The town, which is in cow ranch country, is also home to a vegetarian cult that many suspect are behind these assaults, but there might be something bigger at play… 

And we discover that maybe Kristen had the right idea by not having mirrors.  

(Originally recorded: 18 April 2021)

(Originally released: 07 May 2021)

Links:  

Darren McGavin  

Picket Fences  

X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Companion by Ted Edwards  

X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Louisa Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson  

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry  

Entertainment Tonight  

Music:  

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz  

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians  

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In a volcano, no one can hear you scream… unless they’re in the volcano too.  

A volcanic research team fails to check in and the observatory sees one of their bodies on the feed from a research robot. Mulder and Scully are sent with a team to investigate what happened and extract the survivors. But everyone at the station is paranoid and the team leader, suspected of killing a team member, has vanished. Mulder and Scully must figure out what’s going on and find the missing scientist before it’s too late.  

“We named the robot Firewalker…”* 

(Originally recorded: 11 April 2021) 

(Originally released: 30 April 2021)

Links:  

X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Companion by Ted Edwards  

X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Louisa Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson  

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry  

Music:  

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz  

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians  

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*extremely weak Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade reference. —N.

She's baaaaaaaaaack....  

After being missing for months, Scully appears in a local hospital in a coma. There is no record of who brought her to the hospital or admitted her, and no tests show any reason why she’s in the coma. Scully’s mom and sister sit with Scully while Mulder tries to figure out what’s wrong with her and how to get revenge on the people who did this to her.   

OMG! If Scully is back from the dead, she *might* be a vampire…?!   

(Originally recorded: 04 April 2021)

(Originally released: 23 April 2021)

Links:  

Skeptoid Podcast #773: “Top 10 Pro-Science Fictional Characters”   

“They promised us hovercrafts!”  

X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Companion by Ted Edwards  

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Brian Lowry  

Music:  

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz  

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians  

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“He who eats of my flesh and drinks of my blood shall have eternal life.” 

Mulder investigates a vampiric murder where the victim is drained of blood and all the mirrors in the home are broken. It’s similar to other cases he’s read about in various cities and if it follows the pattern, there will be two more victims before the killers disappear into the night. Mulder must find them before more people die. 

OMG! It *might* be vampires…?! 

(Originally recorded: 21 March 2021)

(Originally released: 16 April 2021)

References:

X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Louisa Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson 

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry 

The X-Files: The Official Archives: Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena by Paul Terry

Music: 

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz 

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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aka "Duane Barry, Part 2”, sort of... 

After Scully is kidnapped by Duane Barry, Mulder is desperate to find where she’s been taken before it’s too late. But his partner, Alex Krycek, might not actually be helping his cause.  

Spoiler: It *might* (not) be aliens…? 

(Originally recorded: 20 March 2021)

(Originally released: 09 April 2021)

References: 

The Unofficial X-Files Companion by N.E. Genge  

Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen & Emily Todd Vanderwerf  

The X-Files Declassified by Frank Lovece 

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry

Music: 

"Dark Science" by David Hilowitz 

"The Truth Is What We Make of It" by The Agrarians

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“They’re gonna take Duane Barry.”

Mulder is called in to assist in a hostage negotiation because the perp claims to be an alien abductee. While Mulder tries to talk him into releasing the hostages, Scully does research into his past to figure out who the suspect really is and what his motivations might be. Spoiler: It might be aliens.

Originally recorded: 14 Mar 2021

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"I am the Candyman. Coming from Bountyland!" 

A man calls 9-1-1 to report a fire in his apartment building. He’s found dead in the apartment with a fire extinguisher at his feet - but there’s no sign of a fire. Mulder gets Skinner to assign him the case except there’s a problem: another agent, Alex Krycek, opened the same case two hours earlier. Now Mulder must work with this eager agent to figure out what’s killing people, while Scully helps at a distance. 

Fire! Maybe Cecil and Phoebe are back for more? 

(Originally recorded: 13 March 2021)

(Originally released: 26 March 2021)

Links: 

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 

Mỹ Lai massacre (and, yes, Nic pronounces it incorrectly the entire episode)

Mister X 

Russian Sleep Experiment 

21 Jump Street

References: 

X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Companion by Ted Edwards 

X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Louisa Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson 

The X-Files Declassified by Frank Lovece 

The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry 

wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman

Music: 

"Dark Science" by David Hilowitz 

"The Truth Is What We Make of It" by The Agrarians  

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