"The X Files" Detour (1997)

Director:

Brett Dowler

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Frank Spotnitz (written by)

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

23 November 1997 (Season 5, Episode 4)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Mulder and Scully travel to an FBI team seminar in Florida with two other agents. On their way to the seminar...

Plot Keywords:

FBI | FBI Agent | Alien | X Files | Conspiracy

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Colleen Flynn	...	Michele Fazekas
J.C. Wendel	...	Agent Stonecypher
Scott Burkholder	...	Agent Kinsley
Merrilyn Gann	...	Mrs. Asekoff
Anthony Rapp	...	Jeff Glaser
Alf Humphreys	...	Michael Asekoff (as Alfred E. Humphreys)
Tom Scholte	...	Michael Sloan
Tyler Thompson	...	Louis Asekoff
Simon Longmore	...	Marty Fox

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Latin phrase "Ad Noctum" that Mulder finds carved into a post is grammatically incorrect. The correct Latin should be "Ad Noctem."

Quotes:

Scully: I must remind you, this goes against the bureau's policy of male and female agents staying in the same motel room while on assignment.
Mulder: Try any of that Tailhook crap on me Scully, and I'll kick your ass.

Movie Connections:

References When Animals Attack! (1996) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Joy the World

Jeremiah was a mothman?

Great great great episode. I love the scene at the beginning with Mulder and Scully in the car with the other two agents going off to some kind of marriage counseling partner communication seminar thing and Mulder is less than enthusiastic about it.

KINSLEY: I couldn't believe how hard it was not to use the word "but." MULDER: (In hell) I'm having that same problem right now.

Haha! I love it. I also really like the idea they use of the mothmen being chameleon like where you can't see them at all. I did think it a little interesting that they used mothmen to explain these creatures however because it didn't seem to fit with anything that I have ever heard about Mothmen at all. I haven't read a lot but what I have read or seen matches closer to what is shown in the movie "The Mothman Prophecies". Great movie by the way. But I still enjoyed this episode despite that fact. It is also one of those that you can share with your friends who are maybe easily grossed out. This is actually the episode that I used to get my father to check out more of the series. I give it a 10/10 for sure.