"The X Files" Millennium (1999)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Thomas J. Wright

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Vince Gilligan (written by) ...

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

28 November 1999 (Season 7, Episode 4)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

At the turn of the 21st century, a religious fanatic enlisted by the Millennium Group resurrects four...

Plot Keywords:

Crossover | Male Female Relationship | Title Spoken By Character | FBI | FBI Agent

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Walter Skinner
Lance Henriksen	...	Frank Black
Holmes Osborne	...	Mark Johnson
Colby French	...	Deputy
William Forward	...	Funeral Director
Brittany Tiplady	...	Jordan Black
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jessica Biscardi	...	Becky Crouch's Sister
Dick Clark	...	Himself
Michael Dempsey	...	Sheriff
Marilyn McIntyre	...	Becky Crouch - Widow
Monnae Michaell	...	Female Coroner
Eulan Middlebrooks	...	Young Police Officer
Stephen Ramsey	...	Agent #1
Octavia Spencer	...	Nurse Octavia (as Octavia L. Spencer)
Romy Windsor	...	Agent #2 (as Romy Walthall)

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

This is the first time we ever see Mulder and Scully kiss. Duchovny had kissed Anderson in Season 6's "Triangle", but Anderson was playing another character.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the last scene, where it counts down to the year 2000, you can see a sliver of the clock in one scene and it reads 51, 52 seconds. In the next shot, a close-up of the screen, the seconds are at 43.

Quotes:

Scully: Mulder, these people, even when they were alive, mangled biblical prophecy to the extent that it's unrecognisable. The year 2000 is just their artificial deadline, and besides 2001 is actually the start of the new millennium.
Mulder: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully.

Movie Connections:

References "Millennium" (1996/I)

Coda For a Conspiracy

When a retired FBI agent dies an apparent suicide one of his colleagues knows the truth - as does retired FBI agent Frank Black, former member of the mysterious Millennium Group. When the dead man's coffin is found empty, Mulder spots clues to a necromantic ritual and demands Black's aid. Black's refusal to act may doom Mulder's investigation, as the resurrection of the dead seems to be running a few steps ahead of the end times!

"Millenium" was another Chris Carter series that lasted from 1996 to 1999. Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) was a retired FBI profiler who joined a group of ex-law-enforcement consultants secretly preparing for the apocalypse. While some members hoped to guide humanity through an end times starting in 2000, an inner group of religious fanatics plotted to clear the earth of all but the chosen few.

This is a decent episode with an OK plot without anything in the way of twists. My usual post-season-4 complaint is that too much of the story is straightforward witchcraft with no possible logical explanation.

This is a stand-alone X-Files episode, which is good since "Millenium"'s conspiracy didn't exactly jive with that of the X-Files! However this doesn't EXACTLY work as a wrap for "Millenium," which left off with Frank on the run and a demon having evidently penetrated the Group's inner circle. This episode is in a way a betrayal of the whole mythology of "Millenium" as the ending suggests that the whole threat of millennial apocalypse was occult-inspired self delusion.