Duane Barry
- Episode aired Oct 14, 1994
- TV-14
- 45m
A former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator.A former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator.A former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator.
- FBI Metallurgical Expert
- (uncredited)
- FBI Agent
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIn the supermarket scene Agent Scully buys pickles and ice cream. This is an in-joke as Gillian Anderson was pregnant at the time.
- GoofsScully bases the notion of Barry's mental illness on reports of Phineas Gage, who supposedly underwent a personality change after a blasting accident drove an iron rod through his head and out the other side. However, the idea that Gage became violent, immoral, or a pathological liar, like Scully describes him, is an urban legend. Gage lived a productive life for 12 years following his accident.
- Quotes
Scully: Mulder, it's me. I just had something incredibly strange happen. This piece of metal that they took out of Duane Barry, it has some kind of a code on it. I ran it through a scanner, and some kind of a serial number came up. What the hell is this thing, Mulder? It's almost as if... it's almost as if somebody was using it to catalog him... Mulder! I need your help! Mulder!
[shouts]
Scully: Mulder!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1995)
- SoundtracksThe X-Files Theme
(uncredited)
Written by Mark Snow
"Duane Barry" is a great episode on its own. If you took out the ending, which sets up "Ascension" and to a lesser degree "One Breath", it could have been a one-part mythology episode. In fact, the conclusion, with Scully saying "it's almost as if someone was cataloguing him", would have been a chilling climax on its own. Not that I have any problem with this being a multi-part story, given how good "Ascension" is, and the ending to this episode with Duane Barry breaking into Scully's apartment is fine as it is.
This was Chris Carter's first stab at directing. I have no clue if he made any short films before it, but this is the first piece of TV or film which he directed that is available. It's really very good, and he succeeds in creating a really claustrophobic, foreboding atmosphere. The performances are very good, and the surprisingly well-done alien scenes elevate a standard-issue hostage situation to greatness. The excellent script helps, too.
9/10
- ametaphysicalshark
- Oct 20, 2008
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