Demerits for pretty much everything else. Is she a demon child, or is there a more tragic undercurrent to the case? Points for the stunt-fall and the creepy use of an aquarium.
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You might say, ahem, a shadow of the series at its best?Ī young, seemingly psychic girl throws a police detective out of a window. Her protector is a poltergeist who may be the ghostly manifestation of her former, likely murdered boss. Mulder and Scully assist a whistleblower being hunted down by the corporation she betrayed. It's pretty much X-Files by way of another Duchovny vehicle, Red Shoe Diaries. Vampires are the culprit, and our secret agent man has a fling with one of them, played by Duchovny's then-girlfriend Perrey Reeves. The first episode sans Gillian Anderson (she was off having her baby plot-wise, Scully was abducted) sees an emotionally distraught Mulder investigating ritualistic murders in Los Angeles. Though the episode is weak, Tobin Bell, who would later embody the psychotic Jigsaw in the Saw series, provides a strong villain. Mulder and Scully investigate the corporation behind the Smoking Man's favorite brand - Morley Cigarettes. Of course, there's a creature in the H20, but the scares, sadly, are scarce. Water, water everywhere as Mulder and Scully meet up with retired FBI man Arthur Dales (Darren McGavin) during a Florida hurricane. And hey, there's future Breaking Bad-er Aaron Paul! Good to see you! Better things await. The cleverest conceit of this mostly unmemorable episode - in which Doggett and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) investigate a lovelorn teen who can control the insect kingdom - is its Jackass-inspired teaser sequence. Incidental pleasure: the presence of the late, great Frances Bay, veteran of Adam Sandler, David Lynch, and John Carpenter movies, as a whacked-out, wheelchair-bound resident. Some weird goings-on at a private nursing home (ghost-rape, among them!) lead Mulder and Scully into an especially sluggish investigation.
Guest stars Michael Bowen and Patrick Kilpatrick have an intriguing Of Mice and Men-esque relationship, but for the most part, "Surekill" goes through the motions. Scully and John Doggett (Robert Patrick) look into the death of a man who was killed in his windowless, cinderblock cell by a pair of brother exterminators - one of whom has X-ray vision. The space program-obsessed Mulder acts like an endearing dork through most of the episode, which, along with Lauter, is one of this otherwise lackluster episode's few saving graces.
The terrific character actor Ed Lauter plays a NASA commander who has been possessed by the face on Mars.
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It's dreadfully dull, though the opening teaser sequence (repeated in full as the episode's climax, to much lesser effect) is suspenseful and nicely done. Let's just say this murderous AI has nothing on HAL 9000.Ī disgruntled war veteran who can make himself invisible tries to assassinate the men hiding the truth about Vietnam POWs. Mulder and Scully investigate the strange case of a killer computer in the debut season's worst installment. You might know this episode as the one with the "killer tree." It's also one that Fox's standards-and-practices department censored, requiring Duchovny to re-record Mulder's utterance of "dickweed" as "dorkweed." An insult to topiary everywhere. Director Kim Manners went so far as to make T-shirts for all involved that were emblazoned with "Teso dos Bichos Survivor."
This Chris Carter-penned installment, guest-starring an extremely irritating Kathy Griffin in a dual role (just one of its many sins), is nearly sublime in its awfulness.Įven the cast and crew recognized this installment - about a cursed South American artifact that unleashes an army of killer kitty cats (many of them literal furballs on a stick) - as a stinker. The worst episode of any series should stand out in some way.
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