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Unadulterated Coffee, 7 July 2007
9/10
Author: Muldernscully from Washington Terrace, Utah

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William B. Davis, who plays the Cigarette Smoking Man(CSM) in the X-Files, writes his first and only episode in En Ami. He does an excellent job of it too. En Ami is a nice suspense thriller that centers around CSM offering Scully a cure for all diseases on the condition of her not telling Mulder about it. The suspense stays at a high level as you don't know exactly what CSM's intentions are for Scully as they take a long trip together. Suspecting that something isn't right, Mulder employs the Lone Gunmen to help him find out what is going with Scully and CSM. I always love seeing Mulder's reckless concern for Scully, even yelling at his superior Skinner to try and get answers. Mark Snow's score is exceptional in maintaining the suspense and playing a sort of cheesy "bad guy" motif when CSM enters the scene. Just like in 'Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man' it is cool to see another side of CSM. He expresses to Scully the slight fascination he's had with her and what a lonely old man he is. CSM does an elaborate cover-up to trick Scully into thinking he's being honest and sincere. And it works. Scully drives a boat for the second and final time in this series; just an interesting piece of trivia. We see both sides of CSM simultaneously when he saves Scully's life by killing her would-be assassin. He does a slight-of-hand and doesn't give Scully the correct disc. But, instead of using it for his own ends, he selflessly tosses it in the lake. Kudos to William B. Davis and Rob Bowman, the director of this episode, for En Ami, a great suspense thriller and one of the best episodes of season seven.

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Mass of a Mass Murderer, 26 October 2006
8/10
Author: (andyetris@yahoo.com) from Philadelphia, PA

Dana Scully, FBI agent, physician, cancer survivor, and practicing Catholic, is drawn to the case of a Christian Science child who has had a miraculous remission from cancer. Upon investigation she discovers two things: an 'alien' implant in the back of the boy's neck and C.G.B. Spender, super assassin for the government's secret inner circle. When Spender, "the cigarette-smoking man" tells Scully that he means to share the secret cure for cancer with her she suspects him of blowing smoke, but accompanies him to a mysterious assignation at a lakeside hotel. Meanwhile her FBI partner, Fox Mulder, has discovered that someone has hacked into Scully's computer and impersonated Scully in an exchange of emails with someone at the Department of Defense's research facility. While Spender tries to convince Scully of his benign intentions, Mulder fears that she is merely a disposable bit of bait in a plan to draw a federal fugitive into the secret assassin's deadly sights.

This is another season 7 old-plot-device-elimination episode, and as this often meant the elimination of characters we have good reason to fear for Scully's survival! Unfortunately the ending of the episode really doesn't make much sense.

William B. Davis, who plays "the cigarette-smoking man," once suggested in an interview that his character was the real star of the show! Ironically this and certain other episodes show that in a way, Chris Carter has become the cigarette-smoking man, terminating stray characters and plot lines - with extreme prejudice!

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Scully in a hot dress!, 29 June 2009
10/10
Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States

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I chose this episode for one reason. Scully's spaghetti strap dress. Mmmm hmmm. 10 out of 10. As for the rest of the episode, also very good. I like the story of the cure for all human disease. I like the dynamic between Scully and CSM. I always like it when we get insights into CSM's character. The more I watch the show the more I truly believe that he really wanted to do good but just went about it all wrong. Even the murder of JFK. And MLK. (Although his actual involvement in those assassinations are debatable) Mulder is understandable mistrusting of his enemies but it is interesting how that mistrust blinds him from seeing them as people. This is shown nicely in this episode as he tells Scully in a voice over that CSM used her to get the tape so he could use it on himself and keep it from helping mankind and the video shows CSM alone in his cabin as he disposes of the disc so that no one can have it. His true motives are as always ambiguous, but I believe he really is trying to do something good by destroying the tape. He's learned from hard experience that when you try to play God you end up in deep crap. The episode gets a 10 out of 10 as well from me.

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