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The X-Files: “Empedocles”

The X-Files, v. 2.0 by Sarah Stegall Written by Greg Walker Directed by Barry K. Thomas Airdate: 22 April 2001 “I saw Elvis once in a potato chip.” — Fox Mulder Being dead has done wonders for Fox Mulder. He’s funny, he’s feisty, he has that barely-suppressed grin hovering around his mouth, and he’s sexy as hell. The guy who was dragging through the seventh season of the X-Files has returned from the void with a spring in his step and fire in his eye. I wish he could stay longer. Our evening begins with a layoff to give any…

The X-Files: “Roadrunners”

The Reluctant Hitchhiker by Sarah Stegall Written by: Vince Gilligan Directed by: Rod Hardy “I don’t have a great memory for mucus.” — John Doggett A hitchhiker on an isolated road at night is picked up by a bus full of strangely silent people, who then get off in the middle of nowhere, escorting a crippled, cringing man. The hitchhiker becomes a reluctant witness to a group murder, and then the group turns on him. Following up on a missing persons report days later, Agents Scully and Doggett take separate routes to the same isolated rural community, where they that…