What’s really interesting is his complicity in the corruption as a DA that saw his wife killed out of revenge.
He reaches out to his old friend Doggett for help, trying to find out what needs to be done to save her. It all rests of Morton’s performance and he is excellent, piecing together the clues as he begins to realise what is happening, the desperation rising as he gets closer to that night. Not only are Doggett and Scully bit players in the tale of Joe Morton’s Martin Wells (having a Terminator 2: Judgement Day reunion with Robert Patrick) but it also has Wells moving back through time starting with his sentencing for the murder of his wife (and death by gunshot from his vengeful father in law) and moving back day by day to the night his wife died. In the later seasons, The X-Files certainly became more experimental and ‘Redrum’ is a great example of the show switching up it’s format. ‘Roadrunner’s is a gripping, uncomfortable and nasty episode and shows The X-Files could still return to the darker days it was borne from. What’s more its a bold choice to show Scully being disrespectful and impulsive and its a testament to how good Doggett is already that you are on his side when he calls her out on her actions. The added tension of Scully’s then-secret pregnancy only adds to the terror she faces. Fortunately Doggett arrives to save her in a gripping finale, as the zombie-like cultists surround the bus Sully and Doggett are on as he attempts to forcibly remove the creature from her. Trapped and alone, Scully finds herself cut off from outside society and possessed herself in a terrifying scene. This was certainly a return to the darker, more gruesome The X-Files of old. Heading off to a backward town in Utah, she discovers a secret cult that worships a supernatural slug-like creature that invades and possesses its hosts. The fourth episode of season eight had already established John Doggett as a character with integrity, but Dana Scully still had a way to go to trust him after one case involving a flying bat in ‘Patience’ she decided she would go at it alone, investigating the bludgeoned body of a 22-year old backpacker whose spine was as degraded to that of a ninety-year old.
Here are five the best episodes in a surprisingly strong season… Sadly, the show wasn’t brave enough to end with ‘Existence’.
The mytharc gained traction (only to be undone again in season nine) and it delivered the most satisfying ending the show could have ever produced. Not everything worked, but there was barely a dud in sight either, the energy back in The X-Files after the tired seventh season. What’s more, it brought a creative change, a return to the darker feel of the earlier Vancouver days, a nuanced, engaging performance by Patrick that beat the odds to become a fascinating character rather than a Mulder clone and a recurring narrative arc that was never seen at this level before or after. Suddenly The X-Files became more of an ensemble piece, with Walter Skinner having a more prominent role and by the end of the season, we had Mulder, Scully, Skinner and Doggett involved in the supersolider conspiracy, with new character Monica Reyes stepping up ahead of the season nine main character status. In his place stepped Robert Patrick as FBI special agent John Doggett, teaming up with Dana Scully to work on the X Files and investigate the disappearance of Mulder following his alien abduction in season seven final ‘Requiem’.īut like some of the show’s biggest storylines being borne out of external circumstances (Scully’s abduction in season two was the result of Gillian Anderson’s pregnancy), the absence of Mulder delivered a gripping season-long narrative that saw the loss, return and resurrection of Mulder and the birth of Scully’s son William.
XFILES SEASON 8 OPENIN SERIES
The eighth season saw a huge period of change for The X-Files, with series star David Duchovny reducing his role as Fox Mulder in the show and becoming absent for half a season.
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