X files movie marathon: 89 episodes to go

Another 7 episodes to tick off on my X files movie marathon list. Yes indeed, I've been a busy little (virus-free) bee. Of course, non-X-Philers would probably argue that I haven't done anything at all...what do they know.

Schizogeny
Didn't find it that interesting apart from a few Mulder and Scully interactions. Like the look on Mulder's face when Scully explains how she thinks Mr Rich swallowed 12 pounds of dirt. Or when Mulder climbs a tree.

Scully: "You think that Bobby climbed this tree to pull Lisa's father out of that window?"
Mulder: "Kind of begs the question, doesn't it? Hey Scully... is... this demonstration of boyish agility turning you on at all?"

Mulder: "I don't think this was an act of grave robbing, Scully."
Scully: "No, that's what we were doing."


Chinga
Another one of my favourite episodes, I'm a Stephen King fan by the way :-)
Scully goes on vacation in Maine (classic Stephen King country) leaving Mulder behind.
It reminded me a bit of War of the coprophages, minus Bambi. Even though they wanted to get away from eachother they keep calling every chance they get. Mulder takes on Scully's role in WOTC, staying home, offering "logical" explanations. But where we see Scully doing normal everyday things in WOTC, Mulder is, well, being Mulder in Chinga :-)
Scully even hangs up on Mulder several times instead of Mulder hanging up on Scully. It's the X-files turned upside down ;-)
I really love the ending as well, when Scully enters the office and Mulder tries to hide the pencils without Scully noticing anything. Which worked pretty well...untill they started falling from the ceiling.

Mulder: "You didn't rent a convertible did you?"
Scully: "Why?"
Mulder: "Are you aware of the statistics of decapitation?"
Scully: "Mulder, I'm hanging up. I'm turning off my cell phone. I'm back in the office on Monday."
Mulder: "You shouldn't uh... talk and drive at the same time either. Are you aware of the statistics..." [Scully hangs up] "Hello?"

Scully: "Mulder, it's me."
Mulder: "I thought you were on vacation..."
Scully: "I am... I'm... up in Maine."
Mulder: "Huh, I thought you didn't want to be disturbed. You wanted to get out of your head for a few days."
Scully: "I don't. I... mean, I do. I... What are you watching, Mulder?"
Mulder: "It's the 'World's Deadliest Swarms'. Um, you said you were going to be unreachable. What's going on?"

Mulder: "Hell, maybe you don't know what you're looking for."
Scully: "Like evidence of conjuring or the black arts or... shamanism, divination, Wicca or any kind of pagan or neo-pagan practice. Charms, cards, familiars, blood stones or hex signs or any of the ritual tableau associated with the occult, sensory, abudan, mukamba or any kind of high or low magic."
Mulder: "Scully?"
Scully: "Yes?"
Mulder: "Marry me!"
Scully: "I was hoping for something a little more helpful."

Scully: "New England hospitality. Heard about it my whole life. Finally got a chance to experience it for myself."

Scully: "Hello."
Mulder: "Hey! Morning, Sunshine." [There is a constant loud banging in the background]
Scully: "Mulder?"
Mulder: "Yeah. I was a little worried about you. I was wondering if you needed my help up there."
Scully: "Needed your help on what?"
Mulder: "I left you a message at the motel. You didn't get it?"
Scully: "I was up and out this morning. Mulder?" [Finally getting distracted by the noise]
Mulder: "Yeah?"
Scully: "What's that noise? Where are you?"
Mulder: "I'm at home, uh... they're doing construction right out the window. Hold on a second. Hey fellas! Just keep it down for a second. MAYBE?!" [Mulder stops dribbling the basketball on the coffee table] "Thank you!" [He throws the ball and cringes as it crashes into something off-screen] "Yeah, hey, I was thinking about this case. You know, maybe it's not witchcraft after all. Maybe there's a scientific explanation."
Scully: "A scientific explanation?"
Mulder: "Yeah, a medical cause. Something called Corea."
Scully: "Dancing sickness..."
Mulder: "Yeah, St Vitus' Dance. Affects groups of people, causing unexplained outbursts of, uh... uncontrollable jerks and spasms." [Mulder grabs orange juice from the refrigerator and drinks out of the bottle]
Scully: "Yeah, and hasn't been seen or diagnosed since the Middle Ages..."
Mulder: "Ugh... Ooh..." [Sees it's out-of-date, spits it back into the bottle and returns it to the refrigerator] "You're obviously not a fan of American Bandstand, Scully."
Scully: "Mulder?"
Mulder: "Yeah?"
Scully: "Thanks for the help." [She hangs up]
Mulder: "Hello?"
Chief Bonsaint: "That your partner?"
Scully: "Yep."
Chief Bonsaint: "I'm sorry for eavesdropping but has he maybe got some insight on this?"
Scully: "No."
Chief Bonsaint: "I see..."

Scully: "Well, maybe we need to keep our minds open to... extreme possibilities."
Chief Bonsaint: "Okay, but aren't you on vacation?"

Scully: "Oh my god... That looks like something out of Jules Vern. We're supposed to eat that?"

Scully: "Scully."
Mulder: "Well, hey! I thought you weren't answering your cell phone."
Scully: "Then why'd you call?"
Mulder: "I... uh... I had a new thought about this case you're working on. There's a viral infection that's spread by simple touch —"
Scully: "Mulder, are there any references in occult literature to... objects that have the power to... direct human behaviour?"
Mulder: "What... types of objects?"
Scully: "Um, like a doll for instance?"
Mulder: "You mean like 'Chuckie'?"
Scully: "Yeah, kind of like that."
Mulder: "Well, yeah. The talking doll myth is well established in literature, especially in new England. The fetish, or Juju, is believed to pass on magical powers onto its possessor. Some of the early witches were condemned for little more than proclaiming that these objects existed. The supposed witch having premonitory visions and thing — Why do you ask?"
Scully: "I was just curious."
Mulder: "You didn't find a talking doll did you, Scully?"
Scully: "No, no... course not, uh..."
Mulder: "I would suggest that you should check the back of the doll for a... plastic ring with a string on it. That would be my first..." [Scully hangs up] "Hello?"


Kill Switch
Apparently there are people out there smarter than the Gunmen. That is, if you think releasing an evolving AI on the internet is smart.
The look on their faces outside the diner when Twilight Time starts playing is worth gold :-)
Scully appears to be a tad bit jealous when Esther Nairn gets all the attention at the Gunmen's lair. And Mulder gets hooked up to the AI, which judging by the nurses, found out about his porn collection. I keep wondering if the way Scully kungfu-kicked those nurses is something Mulder secretely fantasized about...

Scully: "Mulder! That's evidence!"
Mulder: "Gee, I hope so."

Esther Nairn: "Are you going to take off these cuffs or do I have to do this with my tongue?"
Mulder: "You don't want to take a vote."

Scully: "Why don't you just call him...?" [Everyone in the room turns to stare at Scully] "Oh... right. Death from above."


Bad blood
Hilarious episode. Think I kept my neighbours up laughing so loud, my dog certainly didn't seem to appreciate it ;-)
It starts with Mulder driving a stake through a teenager's heart thinking he's a vampire, and Scully removing the teenager's fake vampire teeth. As Mulder and Scully don't exactly agree on what happened, before they have to explain themselves to Skinner, they each recount their version of what happened. There really are too many things I like about this episode to write down here. Even Skinner is funny trying to explain what happened to the coroner: "he was sort of...gnawed on". Oh and Luke Wilson plays Sheriff Hartwell.

Scully: "First of all, if the family of Ronnie Strickland does indeed decide to sue the FBI for, I think the figure is $446 million, then you and I both will most certainly be co-defendants. And second of all... I don't even have a second of all, Mulder! $446 million! I'm in this as deep as you are, and I'm not even the one that overreacted! I didn't do the [stabbing motion] with the thing!"
Mulder: "I did not overreact, Ronnie Strickland was a vampire!"
Scully: "Where's your proof?"
Mulder: "You're my proof! You were there!" [Scully sighs] "Okay, now you're scaring me. I want to hear exactly what you're going to tell Skinner."
Scully: "Oh, you want our stories straight."
Mulder: "No, no, I didn't say that! I just want to hear it the way you saw it."
Scully: "I don't feel comfortable with that..."
Mulder: "Prison, Scully! Your cell mate's nickname is going to be Large Marge. She going to read a lot of Gertrude Stein."

Scully: "You're not going to tell me you think this is that Mexican goat sucker, are you?"

Mulder: "El Chupacabra? No, they got four fangs not two, and they suck goats, hence the name."

Mulder: "Come on, Scully, get those little legs moving! Come on."

Mulder: "Your 'satanic cultists' have some sharp little teeth!"

Sheriff Hartwell: "What satanic cultists?"

Mulder: "Go ahead, tell him your [finger quotes] 'theory'."

Mulder: [voiceover] "Dana?! He never even knew your first name."
Scully: "You going to interrupt me or what?"
Mulder: "No. You go ahead... Dana..."

Mulder: "Have you noticed that this man's shoes are untied?"

Mulder: "This means something. Sheriff, do you have an old cemetery in town, off the beaten path, the creepier the better?"

Scully: [voiceover] "Having completed the autopsy, I checked into the Davey Crockett Motor Court." [Name appears at bottom of screen]
Mulder: "It was actually the Sam Houston Motor Lodge." [Type corrects itself]

Scully: "Mulder. Are you okay?"

Mulder: [delirious] "Who's the black private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Can you dig it? They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother-shut your mouth! I'm talkin' bout Shaft!"
Mulder: [voiceover] "I did not!"

Scully: "Well, it's obviously not a vampire."

Mulder: "Why not?"

Scully: "Because they don't exist."

Mulder: [voiceover] "Apparently, your mind was somewhere else..."
Scully: "Hoo-boy!"

Scully: "He had big buck teeth?"
Mulder: "He had a... slight overbite."
Scully: "No he didn't... and that's significant...? How?"
Mulder: "I'm just trying to be thorough."

Scully: "What do you mean you want me to do another autopsy? And why do we have to do it right now? I've just spent hours on my feet doing an autopsy, all for you. I do it all for you, Mulder. You know I haven't eaten since six o'clock this morning and all that was was half of a cream cheese bagel. And it wasn't even real cream cheese it was light cream cheese. And now you want me to run off and do another autopsy...?" [Scully finally notices that Mulder is covered in mud] "What the hell happened to you?"

Scully: "Don't you touch that bed!"

Scully: [voiceover] "You're saying that I actually hit him... two times?"
Mulder: "Square in the chest. No effect."
Scully: "And then he sort of flew at me like a flying squirrel?"
Mulder: "Well, I don't think I'll use the phrase 'flying squirrel' when I talk to Skinner, but yeah, that's what happened."

Mulder: "I was drugged."

Scully: "Anyway... I was drugged."


Patient X and The red and the black
Another mytharc two-parter with the alien black oil. Mulder doesn't believe in aliens anymore, which I think is a rather annoying turn around on his behalf. Scully is having trouble with that as well, of course, as usual, they always seem to believe the exact opposite. So when Scully starts to think she did imagine the spaceship and aliens, Mulder starts believing again.
What I really didn't understand is why Mulder wasn't worried about Scully after finding out the burn victims all had implants. And what's with his reaction after Scully's hypnosis. He could've been a bit more supportive even if he didn't believe what happened.
It's the first episode with Jeffrey and Cassandra Spender. And we find out that, not only is CSM still alive, he's also Jeffrey's father.
Krycek and Covarrubias meet in Russia. I think she took Krycek's comment to kiss his American ass a little bit too literal. By the way, why was Krycek bringing the kid he kidnapped water? His mouth was sewn shut...
Oh yeah, for those interested, the red & the black is also the episode where Krycek pays Mulder a visit and kisses him.

Spender: "I'd like to build a reputation here. Not be given one."
Scully: "I think I understand."

Krycek: "Well, look who's answering the bat-phone!"
Well-Manicured Man: "Alex Krycek."
Krycek: "Those guys too cheap to offer you a pension plan?"

Scully: "Shouldn't that be my picture next to that headline? Or is that you just having a little fun?"
Mulder: "Do I look like I'm having fun, Scully?"
Scully: "You look constipated, actually."
Mulder: "That would make sense. I've had my head up my rear end for the last five years."

Scully: "Shouldn't that be my picture next to that headline?" ['All this conjecture about little green men — false, dangerous, delusional'] "Or is that you just having a little fun?"
Mulder: "Do I look like I'm having fun, Scully?"
Scully: "You look constipated, actually."
Mulder: "That would make sense. I've had my head up my rear end for the last five years."

Mulder: "One more anal-probing, gyro-pyro levitating ecoplasm alien anti-matter story and I'm going to take out my gun and shoot somebody."
Scully: "Well... I guess I'm done here. You seem to have invalidated your own work. Have a nice life!"

Scully: "What time is it?"
Mulder: "What time is it? It's time to thank your lucky stars."
Scully: "Why are you laughing?"
Mulder: "I'm not laughing at you. I'm just very happy to be standing here talking to you. That's all."

Scully: "You've been here the whole time?"

Krycek: "You must be losing it, Mulder. I can beat you with one hand."
Mulder: "Isn't that how you like to beat yourself?" [Krycek cocks gun] "If those were my last words, I can do better."


Travellers
It's set in 1990 and supposed to be Mulder's first encounter with an X-file. Never liked this episode much, it just seems "off" somehow. I can't figure out why they made it or came up with that story. I thought Mulder would've somehow picked up a trail to the X-files after his first meeting with the Lone Gunmen. To me it almost seems as if they just wanted to annoy a few shippers by suggesting Mulder was married. Oh and all of a sudden Mulder smokes as well.

Arthur Dales: "Do you know what an... X-File is?"
Mulder: "It's uh.. yeah, it's an unsolved case."
Arthur Dales: "No. It's a case that's been designated... unsolved."

Agent Dales: "X-File?"

Dorothy Bahnsen: "Yes. Unsolved cases. I file them under 'X'."

Agent Dales: "Why don't you file them under 'U'... for Unsolved?"

Dorothy Bahnsen: "That's what I did until I ran out of room. Plenty of room in the 'X's'."

Agent Dales: "Who decides when a case gets an 'X'?"

Dorothy Bahnsen: "The Director's office. It's... uh... it's kind of a dead end. No one's supposed to see them but... makes for interesting reading."