Provenance
- Episode aired Mar 3, 2002
- TV-14
- 45m
A man is chased from the Canada/US border and reportedly burned alive though his body is not found. Meanwhile, in the burned remains, the FBI finds papers with the same UFO markings Scully f... Read allA man is chased from the Canada/US border and reportedly burned alive though his body is not found. Meanwhile, in the burned remains, the FBI finds papers with the same UFO markings Scully found in Africa.A man is chased from the Canada/US border and reportedly burned alive though his body is not found. Meanwhile, in the burned remains, the FBI finds papers with the same UFO markings Scully found in Africa.
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- TriviaAlien artefacts, that had first appeared in the Season 6 finale Biogenesis (1999), were still in storage so the crew didn't need to recreate them.
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Dana Scully: I'm on my way. That was Agent Doggett again. They're waiting. Mom, I've got to go.
Margaret Scully: It's the middle of the night, Dana. I just don't understand what can't wait 'til tomorrow.
Dana Scully: Mom, it's important. I wouldn't go if it weren't.
Margaret Scully: Yes, I know, Dana. You say it's about getting answers.
Dana Scully: Answers about William, Mom.
Margaret Scully: I know you're worried about him... that there are things about him that you just can't explain - but even if you were to get those answers what would it change?
Dana Scully: Mom, he's my child.
Margaret Scully: And you have to love him and raise him in spite of everything. Dana, god has given you a miracle. A child that wasn't supposed to be. Maybe it's not to question... just to be taken as a matter of faith.
Dana Scully: Mom, I can't take this on faith. I need to know. I need to know if it's really God I have to thank.
- Crazy creditsIn the main title for the ninth season, a piece of paper flashes across the screen listing "FBI Contacts: Witnesses and Contributors." The names on the list are screen names of the series' on-line fans. For episodes #9.01-#9.11, the names were randomly picked from various X-Files message boards. For episodes #9.12-#9.19, the names came from contest entries.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The X-Files: The Truth (2002)
We learn a few more things about the godship, but nothing really different than what we had already seen. Just a few added descriptions.
Skully gets hauled in to Kersch's office in a most inappropriate manner and she reacts in a very defensive way, understandably.
When it comes down to it, it was all Skinner's bad idea. He made a mistake is all, but the repercussions are: a lot of the problems that happen because of a lack of transparency, that could have been avoided, especially for Skully. And one very severe problem that is sidestepped only at the last minute.
This is just a series of unfortunate events that occurred simply because information was not doled out properly and in a timely fashion. And this is not simply about artifacts, we have to remember the actual power that these artifacts held.
When we think of power, we think "atomic" and of energies that we don't understand. And there are examples of this power in this episode, but it is not what you think it is:
The god spaceship storyline talks about power, but not necessarily energy, it is the power of the word. This was made very plain in season 7 episode 1.
In certain interpretations of the Bible, God spoke the planet, and us, into being. That is an example of power. In certain old testament scriptures, it talks about the idea that a very whisper from the mouth of God could flatten a city.
And because people don't understand the concept of that kind of power, they get things wrong. The FBI is wrong, and a UFO cult is wrong. And because of the amount of error we are talking about, there are some severe issues.
We saw what happened to Mulder from just being near a scrap of paper with rubbings from one of these artifacts. And obviously there are people in the FBI that know about this: but this episode is merely part one: "the stupidity". First there is the stupidity, then there is the fix.
Everybody makes mistakes here including Skully and Reyes. The only person who doesn't appears to be Doggett, but he is protected by the fact that he doesn't believe in anything.
This episode is merely the prelude, it gets much more interesting.
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