Holy smokes! With Mulder essentially trapped inside a car as a result of being hijacked by one Patrick Crump (Bryan Cranston), it's Scully coming up with a theory on what's going on with Crump, and the need for him to be traveling in a westerly direction at high speeds. The cause of Crump's malady has to do with an unintended power surge at a Naval Research Station that knocked out TV reception over a four state area, with an attendant catastrophic result on humans and animals. It's a fairly implausible idea the writers came up with, but hey, a premise along the same lines worked for the 1994 flick "Speed", only this time the bomb (so to speak), was inside Crump's head.
It's interesting to me how almost all the questions Scully came up with at the naval station were generally met with a 'classified' response. Goes to show how far the government will go in it's efforts to maintain secrecy over what they're doing. Though the stories here are fictional, there are enough real life examples to confound anyone attempting to learn the truth about something that disputes a government official position or finding.
With Scully and Mulder repeatedly being called on the carpet for interfering in X-Files type investigations, their new boss Kersh (James Pickens Jr.) ominously puts things on the line for Mulder when he tells him "You can always quit". When that happened, I wondered whether Mulder could have possibly gone off and found a source of funding to continue his own type of research a la The Lone Gunmen. Unwilling to continue investigations involving 'big piles of manure', I had to laugh, because he already did one with Scully in "War of the Coprophages".
It's interesting to me how almost all the questions Scully came up with at the naval station were generally met with a 'classified' response. Goes to show how far the government will go in it's efforts to maintain secrecy over what they're doing. Though the stories here are fictional, there are enough real life examples to confound anyone attempting to learn the truth about something that disputes a government official position or finding.
With Scully and Mulder repeatedly being called on the carpet for interfering in X-Files type investigations, their new boss Kersh (James Pickens Jr.) ominously puts things on the line for Mulder when he tells him "You can always quit". When that happened, I wondered whether Mulder could have possibly gone off and found a source of funding to continue his own type of research a la The Lone Gunmen. Unwilling to continue investigations involving 'big piles of manure', I had to laugh, because he already did one with Scully in "War of the Coprophages".