"The X Files" Milagro (1999)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Kim Manners

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Chris Carter (teleplay)

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

18 April 1999 (Season 6, Episode 18)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

An introverted writer, Philip Padgett, develops an obsession with Scully and moves into Mulder's building in order to be closer to her...

Plot Keywords:

Falling In Love | Title Spoken By Character | FBI | FBI Agent | Alien

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
John Hawkes	...	Phillip Padgett
Nestor Serrano	...	Ken Naciamento
Michael Bailey Smith	...	Guard
Angelo Vacco	...	Kevin
Jillian Bach	...	Maggie
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Casey O'Neill	...	Cemetery Groundskeeper

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

During a scene in the graveyard the camera pans past a headstone, which bears the names Diana and Nicholas Salinger with the year of death 1994. This is a reference to the late parents of the Salinger family featured in another Fox show, "Party of Five" (1994).

Quotes:

Mulder: Mr Padgett... you can go. We apologise for our mistake. You're free to finish your book.
Phillip Padgett: Thank you. I made a mistake myself.
Mulder: What's that, Mr Padgett?
Phillip Padgett: In my book, I'd written that Agent Scully falls in love but that's obviously impossible. Agent Scully is already in love.

Movie Connections:

References "Party of Five" (1994)

I Imagined It.

Milagro is an enjoyable episode. It's different and unexpected to say the least. I like the cinematography employed by Kim Manners during this episode. I especially like when Padgett is first viewing Scully on the elevator and the camera does close-ups on Scully's lips and eyes, just as Padgett is focusing on those features as well. I find it so interesting that Padgett doesn't mind getting caught staring at Scully. She looks at him and he just continues to stare at her. I also liked the beating heart that you could hear on the soundtrack at various times throughout the episode. I like the original(at least to me) idea of Padgett's creation becoming real because of how perfectly he imagined it. The superfluous language used by Padgett in his writing is just fun to listen to, knowing that most writers don't go to that extreme in their writing. Once again, Milagro is another episode that hinted at Mulder and Scully's love for each other, a recurring theme of season six. My drawback to this episode is the fictional creation of Dr. Ken Nasciemento. Nasciemento can pin people down and extract their hearts from their chests. Scully can resist him with her arms it shows. But bullets have no effect on him? Either he can interact with this world or he can't. It's foolish to have Scully be able to resist him with her hands but her bullets don't phase him. What if she had just pistol-whipped him? Would just her hand make contact with him? Milagro is a great episode that exposes a different aspect of Scully and how she can be viewed by other men, not just as an intelligent, FBI agent, but as a sex symbol. The conflicting qualities of Dr. Nasciemento at the end causes the episode to falter slightly. But Milagro remains a fine episode.