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"The X Files" Kill Switch (1998)
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15 February 1998
(Season 5, Episode 11)
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Two U.S. marshals, several street-level criminals, and a computer software pioneer (Donald Gelman) are...
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Great X Files written by star cult sci fi novelist William Gibson
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Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
 | Kristin Lehman | ... | Esther Nairn / Invisigoth |
 | Kate Luyben | ... | Nurse Nancy |
| Tom Braidwood | ... | Melvin Frohike |
 | Dean Haglund | ... | Richard 'Ringo' Langly |
| Bruce Harwood | ... | John Fitzgerald Byers |
| Peter Williams | ... | Jackson |
| Rob Daprocida | ... | Bunny |
| Patrick Keating | ... | Donald Gelman |
 | Jerry Schram | ... | Boyce |
| Steve Griffith | ... | Paramedic #1 |
| Ted Cole | ... | Paramedic #2 |
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Argentina:60 min
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Massachusetts metal-core band Killswitch Engage took its name from this episode.
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Boom mic visible: When Mulder and Scully examine Charles Figgis' body at the crime scene, the boom mic briefly dips in and out of the shot.
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Twilight Time
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This is actually an amazing episode of The X Files, and quite ahead of its time. Seeing as how the other reviewers find it just an average or slightly above average episode, wanted to take the time to recommend this great story. A fascinating story involving the just emerging cyberworld, this stand alone chapter manages to tie together a gang shoot out in a dilapidated dinner, a sinister digital intelligence inhabiting an unassuming trailer, a cyber punk rebel chic by the name of Invisigoth and dreams of eternal love to become eternal in cyberspace (years ahead of Second Life). That the chapter manages to convey the crazy, infinite, menacing, and liberating aspects of the cyberspace world is quite a triumph, while at the same time including the usually great Mulder and Scully interplay, as well as the indispensable Lone Gunmen. While different in subject than other episodes, this one is quite a threat, courtesy of guest writer William Gibson of "Neuromancer" fame. A great episode of a season full of brilliant episodes.