Summary: Mulder and Scully are asked to defend themselves at another OPR hearing. OPR is not convinced that Mulder and Scully belong on the X-Files and Assign Fowley and Spender instead. Skinner feeds them information regarding a case which he believes could exonerate the two. Two scientists were ripped apart by what Mulder believes to be a gestating alien. The trail leads them to a nuclear reactor and an angry Fowley and Spender. Gibson Praise was forced into helping CSM look for the alien, but escapes and finds his way to Mulder and Scully. Before they can leave for the hospital (Gibson is very sick) Fowley arrives and convinces Mulder that she needs his help in the reactor. While at the hospital, Scully gathers evidence that Gibson and the alien claw that they found at the dead scientist home share the same DNA. Gibson is then snatched by the consortium (again) and taken to the reactor. The alien killed a technician and seems to be molting. The syndicate hatchet man, using Gibson's radar locate the alien, but ends up dead. Mulder in a panic tries to get to Gibson, but Fowely pulls a gun on him. Swearing later, that it was to protect the X-Files from being shut down.

Rumminations: Nice to see Gibson back. I can't say the same thing about Fowley or Spender.

Unanswered Questions: Is Fowley in with the conspiracy or does she have her own agenda?

Geographical Inconsistancies: Some of the Sibleren who live in Phoenix assure me that the landscaping seen in the show is NOT indicative of Arizona (California maybe... <g>)

Plot Oversights: How did mister lizardman get from Phoenix to 60 miles out of town in broad daylight without being seen?

Changed Premises: Scully didn't see the ship? I could have sworn I heard an 'I saw it' in FTF.

Summary: Mulder and Scully are on 'scut' work looking at large purchases of manure. While on this assignment they see a news bulletin about a car chase and the capture of the fleeing man. The hostage he has with him dies in the back of a police car, looking like someone has shot her head off. Mulder offers their services to the Nevada police. When they get there, Mulder is denied access to Crump because he's ill. Scully performs a cursory exam and is sprayed with blood from another small 'explosion' from Mrs. Crump's head. Crump escapes from the ambulance he's in and commandeers Mulder and his car, telling him only to drive. By following the clues Scully deduces that problem is not biological, but external- namely sound waves. The sound waves of a government project called Seafarer an antennae for nuclear submarines. Mulder intuits (independently- since his cell phone was tossed out the window by Crump) that Crump needs to keep moving in a westerly direction. When the two agents do finally get in contact, they devise a plan whereby Crump will be deaf, but alive (the sound waves of the antennae having set off a recurring buzz in the inner ear, which eventually 'explodes'.) When Scully catches up with Mulder it's too late. Crump is dead, and Kersh their new boss is unhappy with their little jaunt.

Rumminations: Scully would never examine a body without the proper protection, and removing the helmet on a 'hunch'- nope doesn't fly for me. The date stamp comes from Mr. Crump's mug shot.

Unanswered Questions: Is Mulder jewish? The viewer's may never find out. Which side of the fence is Kersh on? He assists the agents, but calls them on the carpet.

Geographical Inconsistancies: Loleta California is near the ocean, but not on it, and the nearest highway runs north/south through it, not east/west.

Plot Oversights: Telling a deaf woman to watch their step is meaningless, unless your using sign language.

Summary: Mulder takes off to the Bermuda Triangle looking for a lost Ship. His boat is wrecked and he is pulled from the water by British Sailors. He has found the Queen Anne, except he's in the wrong time frame, it's 1939, and the Nazis are trying to take control of the vessel. Disguising himself as a German, Mulder is quickly captured, but not before he runs into a Scully look-a-like. While incarcerated in the engine room, Mulder figures out that the reason the Nazis are aboard is to take out Thor's Hammer, an A-Bomb scientist. A spy ferrets out that fact and passes the information along. Meanwhile Scully has been contacted by the LGM and humorously tries to get help in finding Mulder's whereabouts. Mulder is hauled back up to the ballroom, and interregated. CSM (the Nazi leader) wants to know the identity of Thor's Hammer and begins killing passengers to find out. When it looks like they're going to shoot the Scully look-a-like, Mulder IDs one of the dead men as the scientist. The real scientist, fearing for more deaths- reveals himself. This isn't going to save Mulder and 1939 Scully though. Before they are killed, execution style, the room errupts into a fight. The crew has managed an escape and has stopped the engines. Leaving the room. Mulder explains the situation to the Scully look-a-like and tells her to turn the ship around. Because he's unsure whether he'll get back to his own time, he gives her a BIG kiss. She responds by slugging him. When Mulder awakes, he's in a hospital bead with all of his friends around him. In a burst of love (drug induced?) he declares himself to Scully. She is suitably unimpressed.

Rumminations: A rollicking good time, a steady cam was used to film this entire episode. The action was filmed in 4 min. increments (the duration of a the film canister) then edited together in an almost seemless manner. This was probably why the lighting was so dark, the only real criticism of the episode.

Unanswered Questions: Did this happen, or was it all a dream induced state of hypoxia that Mulder was suffering from from being in the water?

Changed Premises: Hmmm, Mulder tells the captain that it's November 16th which is kind of difficult considering that Mr. Crump- in Drive was arrested on November 15th and Mulder was chauffeuring him around overnight.

Summary: Mulder and Scully are driving along a deserted highway in the middle of the night. They are to meet an informant who will give them information concerning Area 51. They are stopped by some MiB who want to know what they doing there. As they are about to leave something strange happens, and Mulder finds himself inhabiting a MiB's body (Morris Fletcher) while Fletcher now inhabits his. Complications insue as Mulder tries to get to Scully without blowing his cover and Morris proceeds to act like MORE of a jerk than typical Mulder. Weird occurrences are being reported every day. A test pilot and an indian woman have 'switched' and a gilamonster is found melded to a rock. It looks like a test UFO that was being flown that night had something radically wrong with it, and may have precipitated all of the chaos. Mulder finally gets Scully to agree to talk to him, but Fletcher narcs her out and she ends up setting Mulder up for a sting. The episode ends with a confused Dana Scully watching a MiB (Mulder) being arrested for trying to pass government secrets.

Rumminations: Michael McKean as Morris didn't work for me. I kept thinking Lenny- from Laverne and Shirley.

Unanswered Questions: How did the MiBs know to be on the highway at that hour? Why doesn't Morris act surprised? Was he in on the switch? (See the next episode for that answer.) How could Scully not know that Mulder wasn't Mulder?

Geographical Inconsistancies: Broom Lake (Area 51) does not appear on the maps I have.

Summary: Fletcher's actions in Mulder's body start to clue Scully in. She is suspended for pursuing the informant, but Fletcher invites her over for dinner. Confined to 'his' bedroom, Scully elicits a confession out of Fletcher. Mulder wiggles out of his predicament because the flight data recorder he was going to give to Scully was fake. It turns out that the General who's in charge of the project is the informant and has stolen the item (he was going to give it to Mulder.) Fletcher and Scully attempt contact with the general and run into Mulder. Using Mulder as a distraction, Fletcher and Scully get away with the data recorder and go to the LGM to have it analyzed. The news keeps getting worse. Scully has been kicked out of the FBI, and there doesn't appear to be anyway to get Fletcher and Mulder back into their correct bodies. On the way home, Scully notices a gas station which was a hulking burned out wreck only 24 hrs previous. She figures out that there is some time anomaly happening and Mulder and Fletcher need to get back to the spot on the highway there were in when they first switched. Unfortunately, the one of the MiB's has been following them and arrests them. On their way to the cell, the other MiB (who figured out what was going on as well) stops the car where they need to be. A 'wave' washes over them, and nothing in the last few days actually happened.

Rumminations: Rt 375 actually goes right through Rachel Nevada (see Dreamlands) The date comes from the latest Long Gun Man Magazine.

Unanswered Questions: Why does Morris change his mind when he sees his distraught wife throwing his easy-chair out onto the lawn?

Plot Oversights: Weell, if this really happened the way they said it did, wouldn't the gas station still be burnt down? That did occur after the 'wave' came through.

Summary: Mulder calls Scully out on Christmas Eve to do some ghostbusting. It seems the house they are staking out has a history of couples killing themselves. Stealing her keys, both Mulder and Scully find themselves locked in the house with the two ghosts that inhabit it. They find two corpses under the floorboards that look allot like themselves. When they try to leave they keep entering the library. In their travels, the ghosts manage to split the duo up and work on each of their secret fears. By making each agent believe that the other shot them, Mulder and Scully both think that they are dying and almost fire at one another. Mulder realizes that it's all a hoax and they leave before anything else can happen to them. The story ends when Scully comes by Mulder's apartment, where they acknowledge their shortcomings and exchange gifts.

Rumminations: This is actually episode 6x08, but shown out of order to air before Christmas.

Unanswered Questions: What did Mulder and Scully get each other for Christmas?

Summary: Laura and Wayne Weinsider are having a baby. After a visit to the doctor, Laura wakes in the middle of the night with a demon stealing her infant. Spender is contacted and immediately deep sixs the case. Mulder gets his hands on it and leaving Scully to cover in DC, checks on the possibilities of demon fetal harvesting. When interviewing the couple, Mulder thinks there's more going on than meets the eye. Faxing the medical information to Scully, she finds mandrake, an herb said to cause abortion in late term pregnancies. After Laura is arrested, Wayne tries to hot foot it to his other very pregnant wife Betsy, but is intercepted by Mulder. When Laura asks to speak to Wayne, she figures out that his story doesn't add up, which is too bad, because Wayne then 'sucks' the life out of her. Unexpectantly, Laura survives, just barely and is taken to the hospital in a coma. The background check on Wayne points to the fact that he seems to be a serial murderer (or a demon) and the two agents attempt to track him down. Wayne tries to take Betsy's baby, but she turns the tables on him. When Scully and Mulder finally catch up with Wayne he's in Betsy's backyard digging something up. Before he gets too far, he's fatally shot. When he arrives at the hospital, he returns Laura's soul to her, and dies. It appears all Wayne ever wanted was a normal baby, and was destroying the imperfect demon seeds; whereas Betsy just wanted a demon and was destroying the perfect human children.

Rumminations: This was shot 6th but aired 7th- so the Christmas Episode HTGSC would air before Christmas. Bruce Campbell (Wayne) is a re-occuring character on Xena and Hercules. He used to be the lead in Brisco County Jr. a Fox show that aired on Friday nights at 8, just before the X-Files. With the brown leaves on the ground- that places the time stamp sometime in the late fall.

Unanswered Questions: Why would a demon want a normal child? What made him think he could?

Plot Oversights: Wayne left the dead body of his unborn child under a pile of leaves and the wild animals ddn't get to it? When did Scully get a chance to call the doctor? Mulder sent her the information the night before, she reviews it and tell Mulder before 7am that she's spoken to the doctor in charge. Bet you he appreciated that wakeup call. How is it he sucked Laura's soul out of her body and she didn't die? How did Mulder figure out Betsy involvement in all of this? He had no evidence whatsoever that tied her to the deaths.

Changed Premises: Mulder's NOT a psychologist? Hmm I guess the Pilot- et al is wrong. Why was Scully calling for a paramedic as she stands over Wayne's body doing nothing? She's a doctor after all.

Equipment Oddities: One minute Mulder and Scully are using the large flashlights, next they are holding the midsize ones.

Summary: Sheila loves Daryl. Problem is he's a jerk. When she announces their engagement in the newspaper, they have a fight and Daryl leaves in a huff. As he's driving, it begins to precipitate heartshaped hail. He looses control and crashes. Six months later Mulder and Scully arrive in town to investigate the strange weather patterns in the area. It hasn't rained in quite some time and Daryl claims to be able to make it pour. After visiting the local TV weatherman, they find there is some merit to Daryl's supposition. After an offhanded comment from Sheila to Holman (the weatherman) a freakish tornado comes through and transports a cow into Mulder's Hotel room. Sheila believes that she is responsible for the weather, while Mulder and Scully do not. By doing some more digging, Mulder thinks Holman is the culprit. When Sheila tells Holman she's in love with Mulder the weather turns bizarre. Mulder confronts Holman urging him to tell Sheila his true feeling, which he tries to do, but when she kisses Mulder a raging thunderstorm erupts. Scully and Mulder can not leave due to the rain, and find themselves at the high school gym, where there's a reunion going on. Holman declares his love to Sheila, and after an push from Scully- she does the same. Everyone is happy and a year from that date, we see Sheila and Holman's son watching daddy on TV.

Rumminations: It is unclear whether this takes place before Mulder and Scully lose the X-Files or after they get them back. Thus the confusion over the year. This was the 7th episode shot, 8th aired. It was to have been shown on Feb 14, but with the Superbowl, that would have disrupted the airing of Two Fathers / One Son the mythology two parter- where Mulder and Scully get the X-Files back.

Unanswered Questions: How did Mulder convince Scully to come out here in the first place? He obviously didn't tell her any of the particulars.

Geographical Inconsistancies: Kroner Kansas does not exist. (at least not in my map program). And since Kansas is flat as a pancake- the mountains in the background (at the airport) don't work.

Plot Oversights: Hail is usually a summertime phenomenon. You need the warm updrafts to make the layers that is indicative of hail. It very rarely occurs during the wintertime (February).

Equipment Oddities: In Kansas you only get one licence plate and that goes in the back. When the rain king arrives at the farm, you can see the plate is mounted on the front of his truck.

Summary: Skinner gets KO'd while boxing. When he returns to the office because he can't see straight Mulder calls Scully to check him out. It looks as if Skinner has been poisoned. By checking the day's security tapes, Mulder and Skinner are lead to call upon a Dr. Orgel, while Scully hightails it over to the hospital, to look at the AD's blood work. In their attempt to interview Orgel, Mulder is shot at and a Tunisian diplomat is apprehended. Skinner tells Mulder to let him go, then proceeds to follow him to a deserted parking garage. A wave of delirium overtakes Skinner and just as the diplomat is ready to kill him, a sedan mows the diplomat down. Scully has acquired Skinner's blood and found something strange in it. She is interrupted in her testing when Skinner is admitted to DC General. Having stayed behind at the doctor's home, Mulder connects him with Sen. Matheson, an old mentor. Sen. Matheson tells Fox nothing important. When Mulder ransacks the AD's office he finds the connection- Senate Resolution 819. Skinner was doing the background check on the applicable laws and found gross violations. When the AD's condition worsens and a call comes in, Mulder almost catches a mysterious bearded man. The clues lead him to an abandon warehouse where he runs into Sen Matheson. Dr Orgel is dead and Matheson fears for his life, believing the power brokers behind the technology in SR 819 are the ones that are making sure all objections to it's passage are squelched. Mulder vows to expose Matheson and the men behind him. Skinner dies, but before too long is mysteriously revived. Three weeks later, Skinner has made an amazing recovery and cannot identify another man on one of the FBI's security tapes. As Skinner is leaving the building Krycek confronts him in his car. He was the man pulling the strings, who poisoned, then revived Skinner through the use of Nanite technology. His purpose is yet undefined.

Rumminations: I guess we now know what Sen Matheson has been doing all this time, and why Mulder doesn't use him as a mentor anymore. Although this was filmed 10th this season it was aired 9th. Why? Initially it was rumored that Tithonus (6x09) was to be pushed back into Febuary for sweeps month, but that did not materialize.

Unanswered Questions: Did Krycek do this little job so he could have control of AD Skinner or the consortium?

Plot Oversights: Shooting at Skinner point blank range the Tunisian diplomat misses! I guess he went to the stormtrooper school of marksmanship. What's with Dr. Cabrera- she lets Skinner die. She doesn't even try to save him. I'm sure she'd have her license revoked for that one. Scully can recognize someone she's never met before (Dr. Orgel) on the survelience tapes but neither she nor Mulder could ID Krycek?

Summary: Scully is assigned a case with a NY agent by the name of Ritter. It seems Ritter has discovered something 'hinky' in the busy work he was doing. Alfred Fellig, a crime photographer has the uncanny ability to be on the scene at several deaths before the police even arrive. Ritter believes that Fellig is responsible. Scully is uncommitted and lets the facts dictate her actions. A murder occurs and Fellig's prints are found on the knife, so Ritter has him brought in. Because the evidence is circumstantial at best, they are forced into letting Fellig go. That night, Scully relieves Ritter on the stake out of Fellig's apartment, but it is quickly apparent that her cover has been 'blown'. Confronting Fellig, he takes her on a drive through the city and explains that he can tell when someone is going to die. When Fellig coolly points out the next casualty, the individual does die, despite a Scully's attempt to stop it. As Scully arrives back at the precinct house, she is confronted by an angry Ritter demanding to know why she left the stake-out she was on. Mulder calls Scully with information pointing to the fact that Fellig is over a hundred years old. In an effort to find out what's really happening, Scully once again confronts Fellig. He recounts the tale of his mortality, and how he avoided it. He has been trying to get a glimpse of death. As he's talking to Scully, he can see that she is about to die. Ritter has been busy, getting an arrest warrant for Alfred Fellig and is on his way to his apartment when Mulder calls. He can't contact Scully and he's found conclusive evidence that Fellig IS a murderer. When Ritter enters Fellig's apartment, he shoots the old man and the bullet passes through him and into Scully. Ritter leaves the scene to call for help as Fellig raises his camera, to shoot the scene, but finds he cannot. He tells Scully to close her eyes, and reaches out to touch her hand. He dies, but Scully survives. Scully is left in her hospital bed still musing the bizarre twists that this case has lead her on.

Rumminations: I really liked the actors who played Fellig and Ritter. The actor who played Ritter stars as Pete in Two guys a Girl and a Pizza. Tithonus was shot 9th and aired 10th, a flip, flop with SR819.

Unanswered Questions: Is Scully immortal now? (I don't think so, but the question has been raised.)

Plot Oversights: Isn't it proper procedure for two agents to be on a stake-out? Why did Ritter shoot an unarmed man? Don't they have special courses you go through, where the targets are waving around items that might be dangerous, but are in fact harmless? How long does it take to get from the scene of the hooker's death to the precinct house?- not five hours that's for sure. Wiggins, a convicted murderer is out of jail pretty quickly. He was convicted in 92, only six years- not bad.

Changed Premises: Scully's moved again? Her apartment was supposed to be in Annapolis, then FTF had it in Georgetown, now according to Kersh's file on Scully she's back in Annapolis.

Summary: The story begins with CSM speaking to some one off camera. The experiment on Cassandra Spender is a success- she is now an alien human hybrid. Before she can be destroyed, Rebel aliens burn the doctors working on the experiment, but leave her intact. Jeffrey Spender collects his mother and has a guard posted to watch over her. Skinner convinces him to talk to Mulder. Mulder is at first reluctant to speak to Cassandra but Scully cajoles him into doing so. Cassandra explains that the aliens are here to take over the planet. In an effort to find out more, Scully and Mulder break into the X-Files office where they are found breaking and entering. Jeffrey wants the truth from his father (CSM) but he has not shown himself worthy of it. CSM asks his son to eliminate a Rebel alien which has infiltrated the consortium's ranks. He fails to do this, but Krycek finishes the job for him. Krycek then explains the role of CSM in the project to Jeffrey. In the meantime Scully and Mulder have found conclusive evidence linking the conspiracy and CGB Spender (CSM) to the project. Skinner and Spender arrive at Cassandra's hospital room at the same time, finding her missing. She has found her way to Mulder's and wants him to kill her, to stop the invasion. CSM finishes with his story and we find he's been speaking to Diana Fowley all along.

Rumminations: We see the return of Cassandra Spender introduced in Patient X. Spender is actually interesting in this episode and I found myself feeling sorry for the poor clod. Fowley's duplicitous nature is finally made clear to the audience.

Unanswered Questions: Why does CSM think that this is the end? Couldn't he deny everything as in the past? What makes this time so urgent?

Plot Oversights: Cassandra Spender has been abducted for the last 25 yrs, it's only now that she thinks they are bad? Huh- where did this come from? Why wasn't tests done on Cassandra- I'm sure if some of her toxic green blood were drawn we'd have heard about the fallout from it. In all this time Mulder never thought to do a computer search on Spender? He obviously thought he was working with 'smokie' as far back as The End.

Changed Premises:The faceless Rebel was not played by Brian Thompson as in TRatB- leading to soem confusion. Is this to imply that they are a different race or are they (the Rebels) made up of many different species? You decide. Scully seems to have changed her mind about hypnosis. In José Chung's, From Outer Space subjects are prone to confabulation- but in this episode she refrences her hyponsis session fron TRatB and sights it as gospel.

Summary: The CDC breaks in the door at Mulder's and quarantines Scully and Mulder at Fort Marlene. Scully wants to know where Cassandra is and Fowley tells her that she's a medical threat. The elders review their options and decide that colonization should begin. Mulder runs into Marita, who's been experimented on for the last year. She informs Mulder of the importance of Cassandra. Later, Scully presents evidence linking Fowley to the consortium. Mulder doesn't want to believe it, but reluctantly investigates the possibility by going to Fowley's apartment. He runs into CSM there and he tells Mulder the basic outline of what's been going on. The consortium has made a deal with the aliens. They are 'building' hybrids to act as a slave race in exchange for immunity. In the meantime, they were also secretly working on a vaccine. As he leaves, CSM gives him the name of El Rico AFB- a safe house when colonization occurs. Spender arrives in NYC looking for the elders only to find Krycek. Krycek tells him that they're gone and colonization has begun. Cassandra is kidnapped by CSM from Fort Marlene. Mulder mopes and confronts Fowley. He gives her the name of the safe house. Jeffy discovers that his mother has been taken and Marita cajoles him into getting her out of Fort Marlene. She gives him the location of his mother. Spender calls Scully then Scully calls Mulder, as he's leaving Fowley's. Mulder wants Scully to come with him, but she convinces him that Cassandra might be saved. Fowley goes on ahead while Mulder meets Scully and they drive to the train yards. They are unsuccessful in getting the train carrying Cassandra to stop. Skinner is called and he picks up Mulder and Scully at the train yards. Fowley arrives at El Rico shortly after CSM. The entourage caring for Cassandra has been breached by a rebel and the consortium members and their families are surrounded and 'flammed'. Fowley and CSM run away before their captured. Spender calls for a meeting requesting Mudler and Scully's reinstatement to the X-Files. In the X-Files office, CSM is waiting for his son. A shot is fired and CSM walks away.

Rumminations: Yeah- Fowley lives in the Watergate Apartments. Tells you where her loyalties lie.

Unanswered Questions: Why the hell would Mulder believe Fowley over Scully? What did the colonists gain by giving the 'wellspring' to the consortium? A few humans? Couldn't they have invaded without their (the syndicate's) help? Is Cassandra really dead? Is Spender really dead?

Geographical Inconsistancies: Although there is no Fort Marlene, there is a Fort Dietrich in Maryland that is associated with USAMRIID. There is no El Rico Air Force Base.

Plot Oversights: Shooting at the train when you don't know if it's the one you want to stop is a big no-no. Why did they think that putting the car on the tracks or shooting hands guns would stop it?

Summary: Arthur Dales, founder of the X-Files calls Mulder to tell him to get down to Florida. Scully and Mulder arrive in the middle of a hurricane to find that Dales believes that there is a sea monster lurking about, and he fears for the safety of his neighbors- the Shipleys. The two agents go to the Shipleys and find a wet cat and an idiot deputy. On their way back to the airport, they find the roads washed out and seek shelter at an apartment building. There they find the deputy in respiratory distress with strange welts on his neck. Searching the building, there are four other people stranded here. One is an unstable militant type. In an attempt to lower the police man's temperature, they place him in a tub of cold water. When shots are fired, it is discovered that there is some kind of a 'monster' in the sewer pipes. Epsom salts get dumped into the bath accidentally, and the officer disappears. One of the individuals (a looter) bolts and when Mulder checks the garage- he finds the deputy's truck is gone. Mulder is then attacked by the 'monster'. Scully tries to go to her partner, only to have a gun shoved in her face, and the pregnant woman in the apartment goes into labor. Scully delivers the child, as the monster grabs the militant man. She has made the connection that fresh water destroys the creature, salt water enhances it; and has the father shoot at the sprinkler system. Next morning all is well, and Dales tells Mulder that Scully saved his butt and he wishes he had someone like her when he started the X-Files.

Rumminations: The date is a guestimate, since hurricane season runs June to November. By the time you hit the 'L's it would have to be at least October. Mulder sticks his hand in unidentified ooze again, what's up with that? Didn't he learn his lesson during The Beginning? This was the 14th episode shot- 13th aired, due to problems with Arcadia.

Unanswered Questions: The last time we saw Dales and Mulder meet Dales wasn't overly friendly to Mulder and that was seven years ago. When did they become fast friends?

Plot Oversights: How did Mulder and Scully get to Goodland anyway? At the first sign of a hurricane, the airports CLOSE. They would have never made it in. The cat would never have climbed under the car and hopped a ride, and if by some miracle it did, it wouldn't have survived sitting on the axle. Babies come. They are a natural extention of life, but they do not come in ten minutes after a mother's water breaks! Also- if faced between a dying Mulder and a delivery, Scully would never, EVER leave Mulder to die. This was a serious booboo on David Amann's part.

Equipment Oddities: The flashlight's that Mulder and Scully sported as they were entering the Shipley's were the jumbo industrial size, when they were exploring the house, they were smaller handheld versions. Hurricanes have been known to take out cellular service, so how did Scully get through in the first place?

Summary: Mulder is having a bad day. He wakes up to find that his waterbed has sprung a leak, shorting out his alarm clock causing him to oversleep. In addition to this, the leak is severe enough to cause damage in the apartment below him and he has to write a check to his landlord to cover the costs. Ooops, he doesn't have enough money in his account to cover it! Instead of going to the meeting he was to attend, he runs to the bank to deposit his paycheck. There he stumbles upon Bernard Oates who is intent on robbing said bank. Things don't go well for Bernard either, when everything goes wrong, Bernard hits the switch on a bomb that's strapped to his chest. BOOM! The day then restarts. Pam, Bernard's girlfriend seems to be the only one who remembers events from day to day. The day repeats itself many times. In the last repeat, Mulder remembers enough of what happened to break the cycle, by causing Pam to enter the equation. When Bernard accidentally shoots her, the day continues on as normal.

Rumminations: Carrie Hamilton was awesome as Pam. Darren Burrows (Bernard) played Ed Chigliak in Northern Exposure. A nice dose of guilt-free Scullyangst. GA was in top notch form watching Mulder die in act one and two- and yet, there were no lasting effects to this turmoil. <g>

Unanswered Questions: What caused the day to 'skip' in the first place?

Plot Oversights: Scully's a doctor, right? So why does she walk away from Pam after she gets shot? She isn't worth saving? I know 1013 doesn't like to put dates on anything, but when was the last time you walking into a bank and you didn't see some calender with a big honkin date on it... Today is-. I know it's easy to mess up but, Pam looks at her watch and it's 9:55, in the bank it's 11:50. Doh!

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Rumminations: Arcadia was the 13th episode shot and was supposed to be Mulder and Scully's first assignment back on the X-files. It was held back because of post-production problems with the monster effects. I didn't notice a plethera of special effects overall so I don't know why they bothered.

Unanswered Questions: Why were they sent on this assignment in the first place? A dissapearance is not exactly an X-File. Was AD Skinner trying to give them something a little bit more concrete to be sure that they could solve it?

Plot Oversights: Scully states on the video tape that the date is February 24th, but Mulder's Omega watch, which he looks at after the neighbors have moved him in has a date of the 7th on it.

Changed Premises: I'm not sure this belongs here but what the hey- Mulder owned an Omega watch which had the day of the week on it (See the episode Monday) and here it's got the date. Yes, I know that it's possible for him to have more than one watch, but why? They are almost exactly the same and Omega watches are expensive.

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Biogenesis:

Date: September / October 1999? The events of this episode came directly before Sixth Exinction and Sixth Exinction:Amor Fati.

On Screen Locations:

• Ivory Coast West Africa
• Universite Cote D'Ivoire West Africa
• Dulles Internationsl Airport
• American University Washington, DC
• FBI Headquarters Washington, DC
• American University
• Sandoz Residence Silver Spring, Maryland
• Southwestern General Hospital Gallup, New Mexico
• American University
• Georgetown Memorial Hospital Washington, DC
• Ivory Coast