The Redux 2-parter exposes some things none which is more telling than the government's use of perpetuating the UFO "hoax" in order to manipulate the American people as well as the world at large.
The faked death of Mulder, as he defends himself from a CIA "watcher" sets in motion a chain of events related to Scully' bio-engineered terminal disease. Time is getting shorter for Scully and Mulder seizes the opportunity by glomming the diseased agents "level-4" clearance credentials. For this to work, as well as protection for Mulder, Scully has to falsely identify the dead body as Mulders.
While Scully is now a "guarded" believer it mostly rests on the nefarious actions she believed has resulted in her illness. Scully is convinced that it all part of a plan to silence both her and Mulder. She's closer than she knows even if she hasn't connected all of the dots. Her actions buy Mulder time to go deep inside the Pentagon where he believes a cure may just lurk since something engineered may just as easily be reverse-engineered. He's on the right track and if he can evade those seeking to contain the "big lie" he may get the anti-dote (i.e. cure) for Scully. It won't be easy. In the process he is met, once more since an earlier attempt was more or less rebuffed, by agent Kritschgau of the company. Kritschgau believes in some things like bio-engineered weapons/diseases, but not others such as the existence of actual EBEs. He buys the lie within a lie that the existence of EBEs are part of a larger hoax perpetrated by the government to achieve Cold War objectives. Apparently Kritschgau is only deep enough to be inquisitive since his own son suffers from some kind of Gulf War illness he firmly believes had its origin within the biological weapons program inside the pentagon. Mulder knows he is only partly right as he states that he has witnessed alien life-forms. Still Kritschgow insists Mulder only sees what the government wants him to.. It definitely seems Kritschgow is only partly right as Mulder gets further visual evidence the government and the aliens have met and the government has now co-opted the EBEs for it's benefit. Still, the main objective for this day is to find the cure for Scully's engineered terminal disease. Mulder will not be deterred and even gets help from "the cigarette smoking man" in order to exit the pentagon after his death hoax begins to unravel.
Not that "the cigarette smoking man" is Mulder's bosom buddy, but he becomes very important as Mulder thinks he's failed to find the cure. The CSM will use Mulder because he's more valuable alive, and that apparently includes Scully. The hint pays of and Mulder realizes he has, in fact, found Scully's magic-bullet cure. With options on the wan Scully's family, and doctor, acquiesce to her wishes to try Mulder's magic-bullet.
Now let's be clear, the CSM is not the top of the food-chain. He's operated autonomously as well as a drone. At this late-date, however, he knows he's essential and he seeks to impose his desire to keep Mulder and Scully alive. "Mr.Big" (old fat fart at the race track) doesn't bow to anyone apparently and he's intent on staying the course and eliminating Mulder and Scully. Things get stranger when, possibly in order to further manipulate Mulder, the CSM arranges a meeting between Mulder and his abducted sister he believed to be dead. Fox is definitely confused, as is the viewer who really cannot be sure of the ultimate motive behind it all. I mean the CSM even offers a sort of "golden-ring" to Fox for all the truth he seeks if only he'll quit the FBI and come to work with him. Mulder sets him straight that, in fact, he's been given nothing of substance and he'll kill him before he aligns himself with him. All the while Mr. Big's hit-man scopes CSM as well as Mulder Yet, he kills neither. What the hell is going on here??? Yeah, it gets deeper, CSM is "apparently" assassinated. Blevins likewise is terminated after a stunning revelation by Mulder in his official inquiry. Oh, and by the way Scully is in complete remission. If that wasn't enough don't forget there was this little thing about Mulder's sister's father being CSM which I failed to mention earlier.
Simply put, these two episodes are "game-changers" yet they open up far more questions than answers. What could be better? Redux and Redux II are the single most powerful "mini-series movie" in the four previous years of the X-Files. This is required viewing for all, I mean ALL, fans. Excellent.
The faked death of Mulder, as he defends himself from a CIA "watcher" sets in motion a chain of events related to Scully' bio-engineered terminal disease. Time is getting shorter for Scully and Mulder seizes the opportunity by glomming the diseased agents "level-4" clearance credentials. For this to work, as well as protection for Mulder, Scully has to falsely identify the dead body as Mulders.
While Scully is now a "guarded" believer it mostly rests on the nefarious actions she believed has resulted in her illness. Scully is convinced that it all part of a plan to silence both her and Mulder. She's closer than she knows even if she hasn't connected all of the dots. Her actions buy Mulder time to go deep inside the Pentagon where he believes a cure may just lurk since something engineered may just as easily be reverse-engineered. He's on the right track and if he can evade those seeking to contain the "big lie" he may get the anti-dote (i.e. cure) for Scully. It won't be easy. In the process he is met, once more since an earlier attempt was more or less rebuffed, by agent Kritschgau of the company. Kritschgau believes in some things like bio-engineered weapons/diseases, but not others such as the existence of actual EBEs. He buys the lie within a lie that the existence of EBEs are part of a larger hoax perpetrated by the government to achieve Cold War objectives. Apparently Kritschgau is only deep enough to be inquisitive since his own son suffers from some kind of Gulf War illness he firmly believes had its origin within the biological weapons program inside the pentagon. Mulder knows he is only partly right as he states that he has witnessed alien life-forms. Still Kritschgow insists Mulder only sees what the government wants him to.. It definitely seems Kritschgow is only partly right as Mulder gets further visual evidence the government and the aliens have met and the government has now co-opted the EBEs for it's benefit. Still, the main objective for this day is to find the cure for Scully's engineered terminal disease. Mulder will not be deterred and even gets help from "the cigarette smoking man" in order to exit the pentagon after his death hoax begins to unravel.
Not that "the cigarette smoking man" is Mulder's bosom buddy, but he becomes very important as Mulder thinks he's failed to find the cure. The CSM will use Mulder because he's more valuable alive, and that apparently includes Scully. The hint pays of and Mulder realizes he has, in fact, found Scully's magic-bullet cure. With options on the wan Scully's family, and doctor, acquiesce to her wishes to try Mulder's magic-bullet.
Now let's be clear, the CSM is not the top of the food-chain. He's operated autonomously as well as a drone. At this late-date, however, he knows he's essential and he seeks to impose his desire to keep Mulder and Scully alive. "Mr.Big" (old fat fart at the race track) doesn't bow to anyone apparently and he's intent on staying the course and eliminating Mulder and Scully. Things get stranger when, possibly in order to further manipulate Mulder, the CSM arranges a meeting between Mulder and his abducted sister he believed to be dead. Fox is definitely confused, as is the viewer who really cannot be sure of the ultimate motive behind it all. I mean the CSM even offers a sort of "golden-ring" to Fox for all the truth he seeks if only he'll quit the FBI and come to work with him. Mulder sets him straight that, in fact, he's been given nothing of substance and he'll kill him before he aligns himself with him. All the while Mr. Big's hit-man scopes CSM as well as Mulder Yet, he kills neither. What the hell is going on here??? Yeah, it gets deeper, CSM is "apparently" assassinated. Blevins likewise is terminated after a stunning revelation by Mulder in his official inquiry. Oh, and by the way Scully is in complete remission. If that wasn't enough don't forget there was this little thing about Mulder's sister's father being CSM which I failed to mention earlier.
Simply put, these two episodes are "game-changers" yet they open up far more questions than answers. What could be better? Redux and Redux II are the single most powerful "mini-series movie" in the four previous years of the X-Files. This is required viewing for all, I mean ALL, fans. Excellent.