Alone
- Episode aired May 6, 2001
- TV-14
- 45m
A bizarre reptilian creature captures Doggett and his new Mulder-obsessed partner underground and only an X-Files deposed Mulder can help them.A bizarre reptilian creature captures Doggett and his new Mulder-obsessed partner underground and only an X-Files deposed Mulder can help them.A bizarre reptilian creature captures Doggett and his new Mulder-obsessed partner underground and only an X-Files deposed Mulder can help them.
- The Hidden Force
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaScully can be seen handling the two coins fused together from Dreamland (1998) and the dog tag from Quagmire (1996). She also gives Doggett the Apollo 11 medallion from Max (1997). Agent Leyla Harrison mentions that their suspect may be "a liver eating mutant", saying that Mulder and Scully have killed one. This is a reference to Squeeze (1993) and Tooms (1994).
- GoofsWhen the camera pans down to Agent Harrison's shaking hand holding the gun, her finger is on the trigger. Anyone with law enforcement training on handling a sidearm would know that unless you are taking a shot, you always hold your finger alongside the barrel by the trigger to avoid accidental discharges. Even if her inexperience and nervousness caused Agent Harrison to forget this, Agent Dogget, an experienced and more than competent agent who was observant enough to see that she still had the safety on, should have alerted her to the misstep.
- Quotes
FBI Agent Leyla Harrison: Can I ask you something?
Mulder: Sure.
FBI Agent Leyla Harrison: When you went to Antartica to save Agent Scully from being taken by that spaceship, and you ran out of gas in your Snow-Cat, how did you get back?
Scully: Um, well first of all it was never actually proven that it was a spaceship.
Mulder: It wasn't?
Scully: No, what... what...
Mulder: Proven?
Scully: What happened was that we fell off of something...
Mulder: Something?
Scully: ...that rose out of the ice
Mulder: And what do you think that was?
Scully: Well I don't know what it was but we didn't actually see...
Mulder: Was it a spaceship?
Scully: ...a spaceship.
Mulder: I can't believe you're saying it's not a spaceship, when you saw it.
Scully: Ah, I mean, it could have been a spaceship. Mulder, but you don't...
Mulder: Of course it was a spaceship.
Scully: But, we don't know that it was, but you don't have a picture of it or anything.
Mulder: You know it was a spaceship, you saw it!
Scully: No, I did, no no no no no. Remember, I was unconscious...
Mulder: You were unconscious? Apparently you're still unconscious!
Scully: ...and when I woke up there was no spaceship.
Mulder: You saw the spaceship.
Scully: Mulder... No no no no no sorry. Then you were frozen and I remember I hugged you until you were not frozen anymore...
- ConnectionsReferenced in The X-Files: Scary Monsters (2002)
I really did enjoy this episode, of course it's a monster of the week storyline, and quite a credible one at that, the creature is menacing, deadly, and visually impressive, but again it's the character play that's so good.
Interesting to see the way in which Mulder's opinion has changed on Doggett, a mutual respect seems to have appeared, but for me the best bit was Agent Harrison, I really liked her, she was an interesting choice, perhaps seen initially as a character not to be taken too seriously, but there's some depth here. I love the way Mulder and Scully took to her, it was also good to see the switch up between Scully and Doggett.
Strong visuals once again, that creature certainly looked the part.
There are some wonderful references to previous episodes, plenty of historical references, it felt very respectful of the past, the show and both Mulder and Scully.
8/10.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Sep 30, 2022