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"The X Files" Kill Switch (1998)


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Overview

User Rating:
7.6/10   422 votes
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Writers:
Chris Carter (creator)
William Gibson (written by) ...
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Original Air Date:
15 February 1998 (Season 5, Episode 11)
Plot:
Two U.S. marshals, several street-level criminals, and a computer software pioneer (Donald Gelman) are... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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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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Runtime:
Argentina:60 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
(At 39:50) Look at the images on the four computer screens. The images are duplicated diagonally, and if you were to join like with like with a line, it would make an 'X'. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Scully: Mulder, that's evidence.
[looking at a laptop Mulder has stolen from a crime scene]
Mulder: Gee, I hope so.
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Twilight Time more

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Great X Files written by star cult sci fi novelist William Gibson, 7 February 2009
10/10
Author: joncamaney

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.

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