Agent Dana Scully is instructed to debunk an FBI project dubbed "The X-Files," paranormal cases that have been reopened by Agent Fox Mulder.Agent Dana Scully is instructed to debunk an FBI project dubbed "The X-Files," paranormal cases that have been reopened by Agent Fox Mulder.Agent Dana Scully is instructed to debunk an FBI project dubbed "The X-Files," paranormal cases that have been reopened by Agent Fox Mulder.
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- Third Man
- (as Ken Camroux)
- Patrolman #1
- (as Doug Abrams)
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- (as Katya Gardener)
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- TriviaNetwork executives originally wanted a "taller, leggier, blonder, and breastier" actress for the role of Dana Scully. At one point in pre-production of the first season, Pamela Anderson was attached to the role, but series creator Chris Carter, who wanted a more cerebral character instead of a more physical one, flatly rejected her. When auditions for the character were finally held, Gillian Anderson was one of the actresses who tested for the part. Carter lobbied for her to be picked, eventually going so far as to talk with her in secret to give her tips on how to get the part, which she was eventually awarded. Ironically, in 1996 Gillian Anderson was voted FHM magazine's sexiest woman in the world, with Pamela Anderson in comparison coming in at number 10.
- GoofsThe mysterious organic substance found in the tissue surrounding the markings on the victims that Mulder shows Scully on a slide is nothing more than the generic peptide backbone of every single protein on earth. As the Rs represent any possible amino acid side chain, there's absolutely nothing special about the molecule represented or anything surprising about it being found in any sample of human tissue.
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Mulder: [Agent Scully knocks on his office door] Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted.
Scully: Agent Mulder? I'm Dana Scully. I've been assigned to work with you.
Mulder: Oh, isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded. So, who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?
Scully: Actually, I'm looking forward to working with you. I've heard a lot about you.
Mulder: Oh, really? I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.
- ConnectionsEdited into The X-Files: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996)
No wonder this show became the huge, long running hit that it is, the foundations were clearly very strong. This is a fantastic first episode, I can hardly find a single flaw. It explains why Mulder is such a Maverick, why he is the way he is, and why Scully is sceptical, I had no idea she was sent there to throw a spanner in the works.
It's a good story, it's not as wild as some of the later ones, but it has just the right balance of something very strange happening.
Great to see that characters have been there since the start, cigarette smoking man in particular, he's great here, very sinister. Duchovny and Anderson look so young, both look so sweet.
Very enjoyable, it's stood the test of time, 9/10.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Sep 12, 2020
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