The X-Files: Kill Switch (1998)
Season 5, Episode 11
10/10
Bad-ass action - one of my favorite Episodes the best one of the The X-Files
29 June 2019
I love Kill Switch to death. This was improvment over Chinga that I disliked that Episode. Cyberpunk episode? The best one of all kind in my opinion. Was writen by cyberpunk pioneers William Gibson and Tom Maddox and that a damn good one. Mulder and Scully races againts time againts artificial intelligence in which they are both become a target of a super computer trying to kill them.

It has alot's of action tons of explotions and sci-fi. We have The Lone Gunmen as special guesst stars in this episode. Kristin Lehman as Esther Nairn / Invisigoth as a hecker was phenomenal I abolutely love her in this episode.

In the opening sequence a man tries to access files on a laptop computer, but is repeatedly denied. A seperatly group of a gangs gets annymous tips including U.S. Marshals in the diner and it turns a blood bath. A lot of action and gun fire.

Kill Switch works. It works phenomenally well. It is an episode that feels markedly different from everything else around it, while still feeling like it belongs to The X-Files. The clash of styles is evident in Kill Switch, as writers William Gibson and Thomas Maddox find themselves adapting their themes and ideas to a completely different aesthetic. That is perhaps part of appeal. While Chinga made it look quite easy to construct a solid Stephen King story that was also a solid episode of The X-Files, Kill Switch is nowhere near as smooth. This is a different beast. And it is glorious.

Scully (Gillian Anderson) is a bad-ass in this episode she used her martial arts skills to defeat nurses and saving Mulder's life. Scully shooting with her gun a robot in a trailor. Mulder is constrained by moving cables and wires, like Superman.

This to me is another Terminator episode in which Esther becomes a target for termination from a super computer T3 line. You also have a chase for a deadly virus called "Kill Switch."

You have a teen sexy girl Annette Reilly who was Redneck Sister by the end of the episode siting on a bench with her friend she is so gorgeous.

Yes I love Kill Switch it is my favorite Episode in fifth season.
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