"The X Files" Monday (1999)

Director:

Kim Manners

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

28 February 1999 (Season 6, Episode 14)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

A bank robbery gone wrong turns into disaster for Mulder and Scully. Mulder gets shot by the bank robber...

Plot Keywords:

Time Loop | Repeated Event | FBI | FBI Agent | Alien

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Assistant Director Walter Skinner
Wayne Alexander	...	Assistant Director Arnold
Darren E. Burrows	...	Bernard (as Darren Burrows)
Monique Edwards	...	Head Teller
Carrie Hamilton	...	Pam
David Michael Mullins	...	Tour Guide
Mik Scriba	...	Lieutenant Kraskow
Suanne Spoke	...	Woman Customer
Arlene Warren	...	Skinner's Assistant (as Arlene Pileggi)

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

Scully's comment, "when did you get a water bed?", refers back to an earlier episode in season 6 'Dreamland II', when Morris Fletcher bought himself a new water bed, thinking he would be living the rest of his life in Mulder's body and put it in Mulder's bedroom. Mulder has no memory of those events so has no idea where he got his water bed from!

Goofs:

Continuity: In this episode, a key event revolves around Mulder's water bed bursting which exists theoretically because of the Dreamland episodes. However, at the end of _"The X Files" Dreamland II (1998)_, 'time snaps back' with Scully summarizing the event as making the day as if it never happened. Therefore the purchase of the water bed by Morris (as Mulder) would not have occurred. So there shouldn't be a water bed in any following episode.

Quotes:

Fox Mulder: Cover for me, will you?
Dana Scully: When have I not?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Life Serial (#6.5)" (2001)

Its coming through down there?

Monday was an enjoyable episode to a certain point. I don't know exactly what parts specifically bothered me so I will focus on what I liked after I say one thing: the girl that was stuck in the day was annoying.

So things I liked about this episode. I liked that each repeat of the day was not exactly the same. This made it so that rather than just showing the same scenes over and over again we actually got to see the actors do multiple takes of the same. I thought it was funny that on the third day Mulder seemed a little more impatient than previously like "ya ya we already did this lets get it done right this time." And frankly who hasn't had a Monday like this? Today being Monday I can say that if I was stuck in a recurring loop where every day was Monday I would probably kill myself. This was an enjoyable episode to watch simply because of David Duchovny. I give it 7/10.