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"The X Files" First Person Shooter (2000)
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27 February 2000
(Season 7, Episode 13)
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The Lone Gunmen request Mulder and Scully's assistance in a murder case at a video game company. A virtual reality game has gone haywire...
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Girl-in-thong Power!
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(Episode Credited cast) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Krista Allen | ... | Maitreya / Jade Blue Afterglow |
 | Michael Bower | ... | Lo-Fat (as Michael Ray Bower) |
| Tom Braidwood | ... | Melvin Frohike |
| Billy Ray Gallion | ... | Retro |
| James Geralden | ... | Detective Lecoeur |
| William Gibson | ||
 | Dean Haglund | ... | Richard 'Ringo' Langly |
| Bruce Harwood | ... | John Fitzgerald Byers |
| John Marrott | ... | Security Guard |
| James Marsh | ... | Ivan Martinez |
| Christopher Ng | ... | Darryl Musashi |
 | Matthew Sutherland | ... | Records Clerk (as Matt Sutherland) |
 | Ryan Todd | ... | Moxie |
 | Constance Zimmer | ... | Phoebe |
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Argentina:60 min
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mulder disappears into the game and Scully runs into the room at the top of the stairs, she is heard saying "Where's Mulder?" but her lips do not match what she is saying.
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Fox Mulder:
[to the Lone Gunmen] If I were you guys, right now I'd be checking my shorts for cake.
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References Basic Instinct (1992)
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Mulder is literally drawn into the world of computer gaming by a sexy sprite who puts the hooters in First-Person-Shooters!
Some X-Files are terrific, others terrible. Every once in a while, however, there's one that is SO bad, but in SUCH an endearing way, that it's truly memorable, if mostly for the wrong reasons. This "Tron"-derived silliness is just such an exercise.
It's hard to believe that "Neuromancer" author William Gibson could have generated this absurd idea of an F-P-S - or that the originator of "Harsh Realm" could have accepted it!!! I assume that most of the budget was spent on the 3-D graphics rendering, but even so - can Chris Carter really never have played "Doom"? "Duke Nukem?" Not even "Wolfenstein 3D?" Surely SOMEONE on the creative staff must have protested the lameness of this dumb shooting-gallery caricature?
The real problem with the story is not so much the phoniness of the game, but the phoniness of the "gal outdoes guy at guy stuff" plot device. That the thin plot ends with Scully in a thong carrying a machine gun is painfully stereotypical, and the idea of a mousy computer geek finding 'empowerment' in a stripper/hooker character BEGS for parody. Alas, all we get is same-o same-o testosterone ribbing. The helpless incompetence of the Lone Gunmen is also disappointing. No cheat codes? Come on!
The fun part of this is the treatment of Mr I-always-drop-my-gun Mulder. Initially portrayed as Mr Dark & Moody in early episodes, Mulder was gradually re-drawn as a grown-up geek boy, and in this episode we not only get the revelation that he plays F-P-S-es, we get to see him in gear saying: "Bring it on!"