"The X Files" Milagro (1999)

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)

Eat your heart out!

Milagro. This is an interesting episode. While Scully is the main focus of the episode we get yet another episode where there is a strange creepy guy that Scully gets woo'ed by. I quite enjoy scenes where they have voice-over of what the author is writing to narrate Scully's emotions and thoughts. Very interesting. I also like the actor that plays Padgett. While this episode is a little slower than I am used to I have to say that overall I still enjoyed the story. It only loses 2 points for slowness. Oh one other thing. Is it just me or does every single Scully-falls-for-a-psycho-killer-man episode end with a furnace? Anyway 8 out of 10.

Addendum: After watching some of the interviews on the X-Files: Revelations compilation which this episode was included on, I have gained a deeper appreciation for this episode. Frank Spotnitz explains a little more about the deep relationship that a writer tends to develop with his character's. He talks about his own experiences with Mulder and Scully and how he viewed them as real people a lot of the time. This episode was an attempt to turn that idea into an X-File episode. In a sense, Padgett's obsession with Scully represents Spotnitz's own feelings.