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- Episode aired Sep 29, 1995
- TV-14
- 45m
As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.As a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.
- Albert Hosteen
- (as Floyd Red Crow Westerman)
- ICU Nurse
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe fictional Strughold Mining Facility was named for a real Nazi scientist, Hubertus Strughold, who served as the model for the Klemper character.
- GoofsScully and Mulder use Napier's Constant (also known as Euler's Number) to gain access to locked doors using an electronic keypad at an abandoned mine. Mulder checks with Scully that Napier's Constant is in fact "27828" and she confirms that it is. However, the constant is NOT 27828, it is actually 271828 (or 2.71828...). Without the number "1" in the sequence, Scully and Mulder should not have been able to enter any of the doors.
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The Cigarette Smoking Man: [on the killing of Scully's sister] This was a mistake. It will be rectified.
Well Manicured Man: By whom? By whom will this be rectified? Your ridiculously ineffectual assassins?
The Cigarette Smoking Man: These men are professionals.
Well Manicured Man: This is not a profession for men who make mistakes. My God, you presume to make us believe that you can simply fix it with enough bullets?
The Cigarette Smoking Man: ...No.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The X-Files: The Truth (2002)
But this X-file stretch is fine: it centers on the childlike apprehension of a nefarious conspiracy, stressing hallucinated urges.
Blessed Way is below average, to get this out of the way. The pedantic prolonging of Mulder's re-emerging just grates as useless, the spiritual connection in dreams is unimaginative, and the episode is my new example of worst use of voice-over in a film, previous being the 60s version of The Haunting.
This is much better.. What we learn solidifies earlier notions, chiefly that Mulder's father was among the engineers, that Mulder may have been guided within limits of his revelations, that the engineered project is on a vast scope.
But the best part for me is how the makers of the show imagined the vault where 'secret' archives are hidden. It is literally a dark, abandoned place lined with rows of cabinet files - watching Mulder and Scully run up and down with their flashlights, uncovering barely corners of a portentous masterplan, Mulder's revelation of the departing ship, then being chased and fired at by 'agents' and making that miraculous escape..
It's all so dreamy in a childlike way, a scenario a son whose father is doing important business for the government, whose sister has disappeared, would imagine around him.
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