Patient X
- Episode aired Mar 1, 1998
- TV-14
- 45m
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8.2/10
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Mulder and Scully search for answers when separate groups of alien abductees are burned alive. They meet a woman with an implant in her neck and symptoms similar to Scully.Mulder and Scully search for answers when separate groups of alien abductees are burned alive. They meet a woman with an implant in her neck and symptoms similar to Scully.Mulder and Scully search for answers when separate groups of alien abductees are burned alive. They meet a woman with an implant in her neck and symptoms similar to Scully.
Raoul Ganeev
- Guard
- (as Raoul Ganeen)
Anatol Rezmeritza
- Commandant
- (as Anatol Rezmeritsa)
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- TriviaAlex Shostak Jr. worked 12-14 hours a day, When make-up was applied - to give the appearance that his eyes and mouth had been sewed up. A small straw was pushed between his lips to give him water. He couldn't open his eyes under the make-up, and he had to be guided by the crew members throughout the filming of his scenes.
- GoofsThe Dutch UN peacekeepers are wearing American gear, like PASGT vests, PASGT helmets, and M81 BDUs.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1998)
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Patient X - the best in The X-Files my favorite number 1 episode I love Marita Covarrubias to death
Patient X is my number 1 favorite episode in the fifth season of the mythology of the alien race. I love Marita Covarrubias to death. The best one in the fifth season. I love Patient X to death! A rebel alien race secretly attacks several groups of former alien abductees, the agents meet Cassandra Spender (Veronica Cartwright), a woman who claims to be a multiple abductee and wants to deliver a positive message about aliens. Agent Mulder, now skeptical about extraterrestrial activity, is disturbed when Agent Scully forms a special bond with the woman.
In this episode we have the roles reverse Mulder (David Duchovny) is now skeptical who dosen't believe in alien race anymore, while Scully (Gillian Anderson) believes this woman Cassandra Spender that she was really abducted by aliens.
Why I love this episode to death and I believe it is the best one in the mythology of The X-Files: We have characters Alex Krycek, Marita Covarrubias, First Elder, Third Elder Alien Bounty Hunter, Well-Manicured Man, Jeffrey Spender and Cassandra Spender in here. We have all the characters returning to this Episode and a great direction by Rob Bowman I miss episodes directing by this director so much. He know what he was doing. We have Black oil an an alien virus.
Returning actors: Nicholas Lea and Laurie Holden which I missed them so much from the previous season. Great performence by Nicholas Lea and sexy beautiful performence by Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias I love Holden's character to death. Don S. Williams, John Moore and John Neville also returns from Redux I, II a wonderful performence from the actors. The only one that was missing was William B. Davis as Cigarette Smoking Man but I didn't missed him at all. Brian Thompson from season 4 returns as Alien bounty hunter I love his performence.
Patient X and The Red and the Black is quite clever in how it chooses to handle Spender. It very clearly signposts the character as important, and positions him so that he could be seen as potential replacement for Duchovny. The vaccine is important, as is the fact of Well-Manicured Man's resistance to colonisation and the return of the Cigarette-Smoking Man. However, several significant new threads introduced in Patient X and The Red and the Black - Cassandra Spender, Jeffrey Spender, the rebels - don't actually make it into Fight the Future in any way. Instead, they become quite important in the context of the sixth season.
Gillian Anderson works just as well playing a version of Scully who seems on the edge of a conversion, a character who might finally be able to see the truth that she had never before acknowledged. There is something quite poetic in the way that Patient X and The Red and the Black allows Scully to see the alien ship while Mulder misses it - a nice reversal of the set-up in Paper Clip.
I love the opening sequence in Kazakhstan in which Marita Covarrubias is arguing with Alex Krycek about events what happened last night. I love in which Marita contacts Mulder about a boy Dmitri (Alex Shostak Jr) who was infected with black oil. Marita Covarrubias is my favorite character in The X-Files but Dana Scully is my number 1 favorite characther.
Patient X is my favorite mythology episode with The Red and the Black sequel episode which is my number favorite episode in the Fifth Season. Miles way better than Redux I and II, Christmas Carol and Emilly. I recommend Patient X and The Red and the Black to X-Files fans.
In this episode we have the roles reverse Mulder (David Duchovny) is now skeptical who dosen't believe in alien race anymore, while Scully (Gillian Anderson) believes this woman Cassandra Spender that she was really abducted by aliens.
Why I love this episode to death and I believe it is the best one in the mythology of The X-Files: We have characters Alex Krycek, Marita Covarrubias, First Elder, Third Elder Alien Bounty Hunter, Well-Manicured Man, Jeffrey Spender and Cassandra Spender in here. We have all the characters returning to this Episode and a great direction by Rob Bowman I miss episodes directing by this director so much. He know what he was doing. We have Black oil an an alien virus.
Returning actors: Nicholas Lea and Laurie Holden which I missed them so much from the previous season. Great performence by Nicholas Lea and sexy beautiful performence by Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias I love Holden's character to death. Don S. Williams, John Moore and John Neville also returns from Redux I, II a wonderful performence from the actors. The only one that was missing was William B. Davis as Cigarette Smoking Man but I didn't missed him at all. Brian Thompson from season 4 returns as Alien bounty hunter I love his performence.
Patient X and The Red and the Black is quite clever in how it chooses to handle Spender. It very clearly signposts the character as important, and positions him so that he could be seen as potential replacement for Duchovny. The vaccine is important, as is the fact of Well-Manicured Man's resistance to colonisation and the return of the Cigarette-Smoking Man. However, several significant new threads introduced in Patient X and The Red and the Black - Cassandra Spender, Jeffrey Spender, the rebels - don't actually make it into Fight the Future in any way. Instead, they become quite important in the context of the sixth season.
Gillian Anderson works just as well playing a version of Scully who seems on the edge of a conversion, a character who might finally be able to see the truth that she had never before acknowledged. There is something quite poetic in the way that Patient X and The Red and the Black allows Scully to see the alien ship while Mulder misses it - a nice reversal of the set-up in Paper Clip.
I love the opening sequence in Kazakhstan in which Marita Covarrubias is arguing with Alex Krycek about events what happened last night. I love in which Marita contacts Mulder about a boy Dmitri (Alex Shostak Jr) who was infected with black oil. Marita Covarrubias is my favorite character in The X-Files but Dana Scully is my number 1 favorite characther.
Patient X is my favorite mythology episode with The Red and the Black sequel episode which is my number favorite episode in the Fifth Season. Miles way better than Redux I and II, Christmas Carol and Emilly. I recommend Patient X and The Red and the Black to X-Files fans.
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