Capital Idea by Sarah Stegall copyright © 1997 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban Director: Rob Bowman Back in my wasted youth, I trained as an Emergency Medical Assistant. Almost the first thing they taught people who arrive at an accident scene was that no one, no matter how mangled or bloody, was to be considered dead unless pronounced dead by a doctor. The only exception to the rule of “treat ’em as if they’re alive even when they’re dead” was the case of a decapitation. In such cases, we were told, the ambulance was allowed…

The Good Witch of the West by Sarah Stegall Copyright © 1996 by Sarah Stegall Writers: Valerie and Vivian Mayhew Director: Kim Manners It’s not as if we weren’t warned. The very title of “Sanguinarium” clues us in that Sunday’s X-File is a bloody one, and writers Vivian and Valerie Mayhew, in their first X- Files script, certainly gave us blood. And fat-sucking doctors. And new meaning to the term “face peel”. Unfortunately, they didn’t give us much more than that in this weak X-File. There were too many plot holes, and so much disbelief had to be suspended that…