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"The X Files" Alpha (1999)



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Overview

User Rating:
6.5/10   301 votes
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Writers:
Chris Carter (creator)
Jeffrey Bell (written by)
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Original Air Date:
28 March 1999 (Season 6, Episode 16)
Plot:
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders that may be connected to a Chinese breed of dog. full summary | add synopsis
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whatsit? more (6 total)

Cast

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David Duchovny ... Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson ... Dana Scully
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yau-Gene Chan ... Woo

James M. Connor ... Jake Conroy (as James Micheal Connor)
Melinda Culea ... Karin Berquist

Thomas F. Duffy ... Jeffrey Cahn (as Thomas Duffy)

Dana Lee ... Yee
Mandy Levin ... Angie

Michael Mantell ... Dr. James Riley

Lisa Picotte ... Stacey Muir

Andrew Robinson ... Dr. Ian Detweiler

David Starwalt ... Fish & Wildlife Officer Frank Fiedler
Treva Tegtmeier ... Peggy
Tuan Tran ... Fong
Adrienne Wilde ... Nurse
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Argentina:60 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Melinda Culea, who plays the role of Karin Berquist, is the wife of the episode's director, Peter Markle. more

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11 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whatsit?, 19 October 2006
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Author: (andyetris@yahoo.com) from Philadelphia, PA

A rare canid escapes while being shipped from China to LA - and leaves two crew members dead in its place. When the semi-mythological creature begins attacking officers of the Fish and Wildlife service, Mulder and Scully look to a cryptozooligist and an animal behaviorist for answers - but more than one person is keeping secrets!

This isn't one of season 6's tooth-grinding 'humor' episodes, but even as an attempt to return to the darkness of the Vancouver seasons it falls a little flat. The actions of the 'canid' don't really make much sense in terms of the range of potential 'alpha's' in the LA area - the season 5 episode "Detour" did a better job with this idea. And why invent a "Wanshang Dhole" when there are REAL crypto-zoological beasties and tricksters? I love Andrew Robinson but he's just wasted in his role, while "Karin Berquist," while an interesting character, behaves totally inexplicably at the end. How exactly is she an alpha? Not one of the best.

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