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"The X Files" Biogenesis (1999)



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Original Air Date:
16 May 1999 (Season 6, Episode 22)
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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... more | add synopsis
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Argentina:60 min
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In the opening teaser, footage is used from the X-Files movie of the cavemen walking through a snowstorm. more
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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]
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Spinning Artifacts, 4 April 2007
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Author: Muldernscully from Washington Terrace, Utah

Whenever Scully does voice-overs in the teasers, I feel like I'm getting a science lesson, replete with big words I don't understand. Scully does it again in Biogenesis, the season finale for season six. I love the use of the crazy monkeys when Dr. Merkmallen is meeting with Dr. Barnes. The monkeys can sense that something is not quite right with that artifact. Why is it that animals are always the first to sense these things? After seeing the crime scene, Scully asks Mulder the question all of us are wondering; what his motives are after the syndicate has been destroyed. What do you still have left to find? --My sister-- The original quest is still alive. One thing I've always liked about the x-files is the casting of minor guest roles such as landlords or a store manager. They are very minor roles, but they get the perfect actors for them. They do it again with the landlord of Dr. Sandoz. He only has a few lines, but he is so convincing in that small role, as if he really is a landlord. Also, that Dr. Barnes is a very creepy guy. He is very well cast. I like the continuation of S.R. 819. Krycek has Skinner by the you-know-whats and he has to spy on Mulder and Scully and record their conversations. Though what Dr. Barnes needs that tape for is beyond me. It's fun to see Chuck Burks return. After the death of Pendrell, Chuck is our FBI office comic relief, though in a different way. We also get a shot of the pencils in the ceiling of Mulder's office during the Chuck scene. It's funny that they used the over-used cliché of horses neighing when trouble is approaching, this time in the form of Alex Krycek, coming to kill Dr. Sandoz. If horses can always detect trouble like that, then we need to have horses at all security checkpoints in airports instead of humans. Could've prevented 9-11, perhaps. I love the final shot of Scully standing before the spaceship submerged in water. One of the best final shots ever in an x-files episode. Biogenesis is a very fun episode. It takes the mythology in a new and interesting direction.

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