"The X Files" Biogenesis (1999)

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Director:

Rob Bowman

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Chris Carter (written by) ...

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

16 May 1999 (Season 6, Episode 22)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

An artifact with strange engravings on it is found off of the coast of Africa. When a rubbing of these engravings is shown to Mulder...

Plot Keywords:

Male Female Relationship | FBI | FBI Agent | Alien | X Files

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Walter Skinner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ayo Adeyemi	...	First African Man
Michael Chinyamurindi	...	Dr. Solomon Merkmallen
William B. Davis	...	Cigarette Smoking Man / CGB Spender
Bill Dow	...	Dr. Charles Burks
Michael Ensign	...	Dr. Barnes
Chet Grissom	...	Detective
Nicholas Lea	...	Alex Krycek
Samuel Kwaku Minta	...	Young Man
Benjamin Ochieng	...	Second African Man
Mimi Rogers	...	Agent Diana Fowley
Murray Rubinstein	...	Dr. Steven Sandoz
Warren Sweeney	...	Dr. Harriman
Sheila Tousey	...	Native American Nurse
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman	...	Albert Hosteen
Marty Zagon	...	Landlord

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

In the opening teaser, footage is used from the X-Files movie of the cavemen walking through a snowstorm.

Quotes:

Dana Scully: Well, Mulder, if it were real then why would an American Indian artifact be fused in rock on the west coast of the African continent?
Fox Mulder: In 1996, a rock from Mars was found in Antarctica. How did it get there?
Dana Scully: It was from outer space.
Fox Mulder: [Mulder smiles and does an exaggerated shrug]

As the Season Ends, a New Beginning

Strange artifacts have been discovered on the African coast and a local professor (Michael Chinyamurindi) brings them to the U.S. for further study. When both the professor and the artifacts disappear Mulder and Scully look into the case. Strangely, even depictions of the artifacts cause violent seizures in Mulder! With Mulder increasingly incapacitated Scully goes for answers to Navajo medicine man Albert Hosteen, who is hospitalized himself. Meanwhile the Cigarette Smoking Man's secret agent in the FBI, Diana Fowley, reappears as does the villainous Alex Krycek. Finally Scully's pursuit of the source of Mulder's illness leads her to the source of the artifacts on the African coast, where she makes an astounding discovery.

This, the season 6 cliffhanger finale, is a solid episode that offered X-Files viewers hopes of a new beginning for the show's UFO mythology. The sense of urgency has returned as Chris Carter took a leaf from the books of 'alien genesis' theorist Erich von Daniken; the show seemed to be moving towards a new explanation of humanity's place on earth - although not one much consistent with the ideas previously explored!