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…
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The X-Files: “X-Cops”
Don’t Boggart That Cop by Sarah Stegall Copyright 2000 by Sarah Stegall. All rights reserved. “So, the first question we must ask ourselves is, what is a boggart?” Hermione put up her hand. “It’s a shape-shifter,” she said. “It can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most.” —Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowling The first question we must ask ourselves about “X-Cops”, Vince Gilligan’s latest laugh-fest for “The X-Files”, is why didn’t someone think of this earlier? The marriage of the Fox Network’s ground-breaking “reality” show, “Cops”, and its first mainstream…