"The X Files" Deadalive (2001)

Director:

Tony Wharmby

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

1 April 2001 (Season 8, Episode 15)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Billy Miles, thought dead, is found alive and Scully still thinks the still-dead Mulder can come back...

Plot Keywords:

FBI | FBI Agent | Alien | X Files | Conspiracy

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Robert Patrick	...	John Doggett
Mitch Pileggi	...	Walter Skinner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Zachary Ansley	...	Billy Miles
Tom Braidwood	...	Melvin Frohike
Gibby Brand	...	Arthur Gaffin
Larry Dorf	...	Pathology Assistant
David Doty	...	Minister
Dean Haglund	...	Richard 'Ringo' Langly
Bruce Harwood	...	John Fitzgerald Byers
Sheila Larken	...	Margaret Scully
Nicholas Lea	...	Alex Krycek
Nelson Mashita	...	Dr. Lim
Richard McGonagle	...	Dr. Francis Orovetz
James Pickens Jr.	...	FBI Deputy Director Alvin Kersh
Larry Rippenkroeger	...	Deckhand
Judson Earney Scott	...	Absalom (as Judson Scott)
Arlene Warren	...	Skinner's Assistant (as Arlene Pileggi)
Mary Wickliffe	...	Nurse

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Quotes:

Scully: Mulder... Hi.
Mulder: Who are you?
Scully: Oh, my God. Don't do that to me. Do you know...? Do you have any idea what you've been through?
Mulder: Only what I see in your face. Anybody miss me?

It's going to be awful crowded down in that X-Files office.

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Deadalive continues with the story of Mulder's reappearance. Billy Miles, who was abducted at the same time as Mulder, gets picked up in the ocean by a fishing boat. On the autopsy table, they discover he is still alive. This prompts Skinner to dig up Mulder's grave, where he has been buried for the past three months. As with Billy Miles, they discover that Mulder is still alive barely.

My question is this: Wasn't Mulder embalmed when he was buried the first time? As far as I know that is a normal procedure to preserve the body from decaying, replacing the blood with embalming fluid. So either Mulder wasn't embalmed or they had to pump a whole bunch of blood back into him.

Over the past six months Doggett has come to care a great deal for Scully and the x-files. Kersh gives Doggett the opportunity to advance, but Doggett decides to think about it, wondering about what will happen to the x-files after Scully goes on maternity leave.

Even though darkness is a recurring theme on the x-files, with rooms rarely lit brightly, it's quite noticeable in this episode. No room is lit; the hospital rooms, the interrogation room where Mulder talks to Absalom, etc. They must really be into conserving electricity.

Doggett has a cool fight with Krycek while hanging onto the side of the car in the parking garage. Though Krycek still has power over Skinner with the nanobots. This is the last time we see him threaten Skinner with this.

Kersh continues to do a great job of making me hate him. I've hated no other character on the show as much as Kersh, with his contempt for Mulder and the x-files. Does he want Mulder to die? It appears so, since he tells Doggett to drop the case involving Mulder, and seems disappointed after learning of Mulder's recovery. I can't figure him out, especially concerning some of his later actions in the series which conflict with what he has done up to this point.

Deadalive is a great episode, where we get to see Alex Krycek up to his old, double-crossing ways. Mulder is back from the dead and the future looks bright...