Born Again

Episode aired Apr 29, 1994
TV-14
45m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

5.5K

YOUR RATING

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in The X-Files (1993)

Police Procedural Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

An 8-year-old girl is the prime suspect in a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated deaths.An 8-year-old girl is the prime suspect in a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated deaths.An 8-year-old girl is the prime suspect in a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated deaths.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

5.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
David Duchovny has openly stated that he hates this episode.

Goofs
21:13 mins in (netflix version) when the detective steps off the bus and has his scarf ghostly lift up and get trapped in the doors and he gets dragged, we see that the bus driver is a young black man, however @21.53/54 the front shot of the bus shows a middle age white man driving the bus.

Quotes
Mulder: Why is it still so hard for you to believe, even when all the evidence suggests extraordinary phenomena?
Scully: Because sometimes looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.

Connections
References Captain Kangaroo (1955)

Soundtracks
The X-Files
(Credited)
Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Beal

User reviews19

Featured review

6/10

It's decent, just bland.

I struggled to concentrate on this one, meaning only one thing, that I was somewhat bored. The opening scenes were brilliant, what a dramatic beginning, the scene on the bus was also terrific, pretty nasty, the trouble is the rest of it was just a bit flat somehow.

We've had shadows, we've had Lazarus, it's a very long first series, and somehow it feels tired here, have they recycled some of the material, or is there a bit of an obsession with Reincarnation.

It's not a bad episode per se, but it just never seems to come to life. After Darkness falls and Tooms, my expectations are high, this one was just totally forgettable. 6/10.