I Alone Have Escaped To Tell Thee by Sarah Stegall copyright © 1997 by Sarah Stegall Written by Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban, and Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman During the Renaissance, even as artists and sculptors looked forward to a New Age of humanism, they looked back on the plagues and wars of the Middle Ages. No matter how serene and optimistic their present circumstances, they could not forget that “in the midst of life we are in death”. So the custom arose of working the image of a human skull into a painting or statue, a…
The X-Files: “Tunguska and Terma”
Krycek Disarmed by Sarah Stegall copyright ©1996 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Director: Kim Manners/Rob Bowman “These guys, they make it all up as they go along.”–Alex Krycek When a neglected billboard becomes weathered and forgotten, the laminated advertisements begin to peel away randomly, revealing layers of wildly conflicting scenes, contrasting colors, and contradictory messages. It becomes a collage of warning and inducements; on a rainy night it is caught in the flare of passing headlights, leaps into view for a startled, confused moment, and disappears into the void. The next night’s rain will change it…