The Ace of Hearts by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1997 by Sarah Stegall Written by Vince Gilligan Directed by Rob Bowman The FBI is made up of border guards, agents who are usually called into a case only when a state or national line is crossed. They are also called in when the line crossed is a matter of degree–excessive violence, excessive complexity, excessive difficulty. And Fox Mulder is the ultimate border guard, called in to explain the excessively strange. Little wonder, then, that eventually his researches must take him beyond the borders of consensual reality into the capricious landscape of…
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The X-Files: “Unruhe”
The Light of Reason by Sarah Stegall Copyright © 1996 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Vince Gilligan Director: Rob Bowman Editor: Heather MacDougall Icepicks again? I’ve felt squeamish during episodes of “The X-Files”, but I never actually found myself reaching for the remote in the first act before. This one nearly did it for me. The idea of an icepick coming within, oh, a couple of light-years of my eye is too much. Ack! Vince Gilligan delivers a devastatingly ooky X-File in “Unruhe”. Gilligan likes to write for Scully, obviously, as she usually comes across more strongly in his episodes than…