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6:04

Hello

6:10

and welcome to the

6:15

X-Files.

6:22

That's

6:25

the EX-Files, a buffering rewatch

6:27

adventure where we are watching and discussing every episode

6:29

of the X-Files one by one spoiler

6:32

free. I am

6:35

Jenny Owen Young's

6:37

ex-wife of Kristen Russo

6:39

and I grew up watching

6:41

the X-Files and I am Kristen

6:44

Russo, guilty as charged

6:46

ex-wife of Jenny Owen Young's

6:49

and hey I've only seen 24 episodes

6:52

or some might say one complete

6:54

season of the X-Files.

6:59

Today we are talking about the season

7:02

one finale, the Erlenmeyer

7:05

flask. This is almost as exciting

7:07

as the finale episode of Angel that

7:09

was called No Place Like Blurtsclurbs.

7:12

It

7:14

has the same satisfaction

7:17

of like consonant combination

7:19

in it, Erlenmeyer flask, delicious.

7:22

The

7:25

Erlenmeyer flask is of course named

7:27

for the German chemist Emil

7:30

Erlenmeyer who lived from 1825 to 1909

7:34

and we will touch later on exactly

7:37

what

7:38

this means as far as the episode

7:40

is concerned. Are you also going to explain to everybody

7:42

what an Erlenmeyer flask is just in case they don't

7:45

know? Yeah, okay so

7:47

picture if you will me holding

7:50

up my hands parallel

7:53

to each other with vertical

7:56

perpendicular to the ground about

7:59

an inch apart. And then picture me running

8:01

them down through the air You

8:05

know about a hands length and

8:07

then angling them out like 30

8:10

degrees and then running

8:12

them down another hands length and then Putting

8:16

them

8:16

flat along the bottom picture Jenny sitting

8:19

around a table with a bunch of Like

8:23

gentlemen from the Sopranos perhaps describing

8:25

a very sexy lady. She wasn't saw

8:28

come on

8:28

Come on. Come

8:30

on. Come

8:31

on. I'm Mary. You're in the Erlenmeyer

8:35

at the bottom being at

8:37

the bottom being All

8:40

of their business Kristen I thought you were

8:42

just gonna say picture the flask emoji

8:44

that is most commonly seen everywhere

8:47

the Erlenmeyer Flask maybe that or be picture

8:49

the early Erlenmeyer flask that shows up

8:51

later in this episode Yeah, okay So

8:54

the Erlenmeyer flask was written by

8:56

Chris Carter directed by RW Goodwin

8:59

and originally aired on May 13th 1994 Wow

9:04

94 just about

9:06

to start my freshman year

9:09

in high school About

9:11

to graduate from eighth grade over here in Kristen Russo

9:13

land Big big big

9:15

big changes one month.

9:16

It's about one month after the death of Kurt

9:18

Cobain. Oh

9:20

Yeah, it's you ate yourself in time that really

9:23

situates me in time I just

9:25

pictured my entire wall of magazine

9:27

clip yeah that I had in my bedroom by

9:30

that marker

9:31

This episode Is

9:34

the one where according to IMDB

9:36

deep throat tips? Mulder off

9:39

to a critically important case Involving

9:42

a missing fugitive and the cloning

9:44

of extra terrestrial

9:47

Viruses I would say

9:49

that this is the one where there's

9:51

a fucking Alien fetus that made

9:53

Kristen Russo scream to the top of her lungs that

9:55

are television and also deep

9:57

throat died a question mark the

9:59

number photographs

10:01

that I received

10:03

in my text messages from Kristen taken

10:06

with her phone of her TV screen.

10:08

They weren't even taken by my phone. I was frozen on the

10:10

couch. I was screaming

10:13

at Avanti, did you get a picture? Did

10:15

you get a picture? As

10:18

though there were no way to

10:20

rewind. Okay. Uh,

10:24

producer Latoya Ferguson

10:27

gives this episode a scary

10:30

rating of one out of five. Trust.

10:34

Trust. No

10:37

one.

10:38

What a beautiful job

10:40

you did. I should have passed you instead of Gary Hardin.

10:43

I mean.

10:45

Listen, pal. Um,

10:48

okay, well. Oh, okay.

10:50

So before we get into the.

10:52

Deep thoughts, deep throat thoughts.

10:55

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. First

10:57

of all, Kristen, you've just completed. Watching

11:00

your first complete season of the

11:03

X-Files. I have. How

11:05

do you feel? I feel fucking great. I

11:07

feel like this episode is the episode I've been waiting for. Like,

11:09

like, you know what I mean? For me, this

11:12

was my and all respect

11:14

to the first season of this television show.

11:17

This is my premiere, you know,

11:19

like this. Yeah. For me. I this

11:22

was this had the backlighting

11:25

and the bodies floating in fluid

11:27

and the alien babies that I

11:29

have been waiting for. I am

11:31

delighted and I'm hoping

11:33

that the cost of admission of going through

11:36

some of the lower points of

11:38

season one will be well worth the

11:41

rest of my time spent here. Yeah.

11:43

Yeah. Yeah.

11:44

Tremendous. I'm so

11:46

excited that we're here. I'm so excited for

11:49

what's next.

11:51

My general. My only general note on

11:53

this episode as a standalone is I can

11:55

tell Chris Carter wrote an episode when my notes are

11:58

almost all like.

12:00

This person says this thing to this other person

12:02

instead of and then this happened There's

12:05

a lot of telling Which

12:08

you know, I think it's it's that's like a feature It's

12:12

a hallmark of

12:13

the myth arc episodes at least this early in the series

12:15

because there is so much kind of groundwork

12:19

To lay to be lain to be

12:21

laid to lay us Yeah,

12:24

well, I mean and also obviously

12:26

this episode is sort

12:28

of a You could take the pilot

12:30

and the finale and pop them

12:32

together and get some nice little dovetails,

12:35

you know

12:36

so like And

12:38

with

12:38

a pilot you need a you need a good amount of exposition

12:40

to set set us all up I was not

12:43

I did not feel that like I

12:45

mean obviously it exists on paper, but

12:47

I didn't feel it I think because so much of what's

12:49

being told in this

12:52

episode at the very least are things that

12:54

are like

12:55

Very fascinating to me They're

12:57

not like the kind of exposition where you're

12:59

like saying how this person feels about that

13:02

or what this person did before It's like when

13:04

you're giving me exposition that's explaining, you know

13:06

What two new nucleopep tides

13:08

in a fucking gene thing? Yeah, and

13:11

that like we've had this fucking tissue since 1947

13:14

and they've been injecting it into kids. I'm like,

13:17

okay I'm listening.

13:19

I am you have me I am all

13:22

ears. So I I loved this episode

13:24

obviously

13:26

We didn't even cover the episode Roland

13:28

in the in

13:28

the main feed which we talked about in

13:31

our last episode in feed but

13:33

like

13:33

coming off of You know

13:36

sort of some of the recycled Stories that

13:38

that hit towards the end of the season and then

13:40

Roland like I was definitely Primed

13:43

to be like, oh fuck. Yeah, we get aliens

13:46

and deep throat and Significant

13:48

eye contact like we get it all in this office.

13:50

I was you know, especially delighted

13:53

but I just This

13:55

is I think what I expected

13:57

both knowing of the X-Files and

13:59

also

13:59

Like when I, cause I don't know if you remember

14:01

Jenny, but when I watched the pilot of this show,

14:03

I was like, fuck yes. It was so

14:05

hard for me to not watch more immediately.

14:08

Yeah. And this is that, this

14:10

is doing that for me in every way. Yeah.

14:13

Tremendous. Yeah.

14:15

All right. I've got some like

14:17

questions right out of the gate for Chris Carter. Chris,

14:20

what's your budget for car chase? What's

14:22

your budget for boat search?

14:24

And what's your budget for human

14:27

bodies suspended in tanks of fluid?

14:30

And I think the answer to all three of these things

14:32

is through the roof.

14:33

I was going to say in the words of Lindsay

14:36

Lohan, the limit does not exist. Yeah.

14:39

Yeah. Yeah.

14:40

Considering all we've read about like every episode

14:43

seeming to be way over budget, I'm just wondering

14:45

how the series is doing at this point, although

14:47

it's a

14:48

hit. So maybe

14:51

the network is just flip nighting out.

14:54

Yeah. Yeah. Off scene, if

14:56

they did this in widescreen you could see

14:58

some of those angles you weren't supposed to see, you would

15:00

actually see everyone just flip nighting out

15:02

around the sound stage.

15:04

Yeah. I

15:07

was so excited. I was like, am I watching

15:09

the right show? Because how

15:12

excited was Avampi?

15:13

Getting a police car

15:15

chase right at the start.

15:16

She goes

15:19

right home. Honestly, every

15:21

time I walk into our living room

15:23

and Avampi's watching television, this is what

15:25

it looks like. So like when we started

15:27

this episode, I was like, oh shit, did we hit? Are

15:29

we watching like fucking 9-1-1? Like

15:32

what? Uh-huh. Yeah.

15:34

But it was really exciting when I

15:36

saw that first car fly up

15:38

into the air, I did not anticipate a second

15:41

car also flying up into the air.

15:44

Yep. Yep. Very cool chase

15:46

scene. Does every chase scene

15:48

on television involve

15:50

going through a stack of boxes

15:52

that were empty the whole time?

15:54

I think it's a really important

15:57

kind of sort of

15:59

iconic.

15:59

thing for you to really know. I

16:02

was wondering where you are and what's happening. Right.

16:04

I was wondering if it has to do with like maybe it's

16:07

easier to do like a squealing

16:09

stop when you have like something that also

16:12

covers some of the, you know what I mean? Like I

16:14

wondered if it were just for fun effect or

16:16

if there was some like practical reason. Like

16:18

when you lip sync, I'm a professional lip synchor.

16:21

And if I don't know the lyrics, then

16:24

I have my things. Like I'll flip

16:26

my hair in front of my face, you know, and everybody

16:28

thinks, oh, she's just being cool flipping her hair in front

16:30

of her face. But really, I just don't know the words.

16:33

So I just thought maybe the boxes are for when the car

16:35

forgets the words, you know.

16:37

It could be. It could be. It

16:40

definitely adds a level

16:42

of drama that

16:45

doesn't inherently exist in a car, is

16:47

pooping around. You know, I bet

16:50

those cops didn't think they were going to get bopped with their

16:52

own night sticks. Bop, bop,

16:55

bop. Fucking, I bet

16:57

you those cops didn't think that this guy was going to pull

17:00

the Taser things out of his own chest.

17:03

OK, so I did a little Googling, does removing

17:05

Taser barbs hurt? And

17:08

here is what I found from

17:11

one internet source. So I assume this is accurate.

17:15

The Taser barb was easily removed, and the patient

17:17

tolerated the procedure with no bleeding or

17:20

additional trauma noted to the surrounding soft tissues.

17:22

So I'm not really that impressed

17:25

with that. He pulled the Taser barbs out. It's

17:27

probably just like pulling your own IV out. But I

17:30

think what's notable here is that the Taser did

17:32

nothing, had absolutely no impact on

17:34

Dr. Seqare. OK, fair. He

17:37

jumps. I write big,

17:39

wily jump into

17:40

the water.

17:42

Who has anyone ever

17:44

jumped like this?

17:45

This is a jump that was invented

17:47

by stunt folk, certainly,

17:50

right? Because it looks like very dramatic and exciting.

17:53

If he was just like, whee,

17:55

frozen pose jump,

17:57

we'd be like, I'm bored. Yeah,

17:59

but it would be. much more effective.

18:01

I mean, doing a little pencil drop into the water,

18:04

much less conspicuous than this

18:06

Lylee jump.

18:07

And the cop is like, I know I

18:09

hit him. He'd be bleeding

18:12

bad, meaningful pan

18:14

down to mysterious green viscous

18:17

substance, which must be alien

18:18

blood. What's up?

18:21

Kristen,

18:23

did you notice anything special

18:25

about the credits? I didn't.

18:29

I may have the second time, but I read

18:31

what I didn't notice the first

18:33

time. Pretty

18:36

excited about this. Okay.

18:39

What does the ending card say instead

18:41

of what it normally says, which is

18:43

the truth is out there.

18:45

What does it say? And you have to

18:47

say it in the right voice.

18:50

Well what is the right voice? The voice that you

18:52

did at the top or the voice that I imagined

18:54

in my head?

18:55

The last card now says,

18:58

trust

19:01

no one.

19:04

Amazing. I actually got emotional

19:06

watching the credits. I

19:09

saw Lou's head go all squiggly

19:11

and I was like,

19:14

I have something in my eye. Okay.

19:18

Okay.

19:19

Yeah. Okay. I write in my

19:21

notes, now we are talking

19:24

X-Files after I get the green blood

19:27

pan down. Jenny,

19:30

Mulder is sleeping on the fucking couch again. I no longer

19:32

believe you that he has a bed. I think you

19:34

are absolutely leading me on. He

19:36

sleeps on the couch. That is his bedroom.

19:39

Final statement.

19:41

Hmm.

19:42

Let's

19:45

see. Okay. Okay.

19:47

Okay. I'm just checking.

19:50

I'm just checking something out really quick.

19:53

Hang on.

19:54

Okay. It's going to be a minute,

19:56

Kristen, but I promise

19:58

there's a bed.

19:59

kind of a while. Okay

20:02

great great. But it is it is

20:04

coming down the bike. The film that

20:09

he was watching the fly I think last time

20:11

he was sleeping on the couch now he's watching

20:14

Journey to the Center of the

20:15

Earth. I

20:17

would love to have the opportunity

20:19

to rent DVDs

20:21

slash VHS cassettes from Fox

20:24

Mulder you know he seems to have a good collection.

20:26

I think he's just watching it on TV. Oh

20:29

he just watched it. This had the real

20:31

the real feel of like late-night movie. Okay that's

20:34

fair situation to me. I feel like he's been asleep

20:36

on the couch for a while. Did you

20:39

notice the pillow that he was sleeping on?

20:41

No. What did I miss?

20:43

It's just a really nice it like it isn't

20:45

a Pendleton pillow but it like has like

20:48

crafted vibes like that very

20:50

very like nice around. I

20:53

asked you because Avanti noticed the pillow

20:55

and so by extension I assumed you would

20:57

have noticed the pillow. I

21:00

love that he is sleeping. How embarrassing for me.

21:02

I love that he's sleeping not with a

21:04

teddy bear but with a tiny little X-file tucked

21:06

under his arm. Do you think he like takes one a different

21:09

one home with him every night? It's

21:11

a cuddle list.

21:13

Yeah and yeah he always switches them out because

21:15

he doesn't want them to feel like

21:18

there's any kind of favoritism

21:19

going on.

21:21

Okay so ring ring ring it's deep throat and

21:23

deep throat's like are you watching

21:25

channel 8?

21:26

So Mulder immediately

21:29

switches on channel 8 and pops a VHS

21:31

in to record it because

21:34

there is no internet.

21:35

He knows if he wants to watch

21:38

it I don't know say a hundred times or

21:40

so he's gonna need his

21:42

own copy. This blends

21:44

seamlessly. It rolls right over into

21:47

an exasperated skull he's

21:49

saying you've watched this a hundred

21:52

times but Mulder can't figure out what he's supposed

21:54

to see. Oh

21:57

Scully is so annoyed right

21:59

out of the gates with the existence

22:01

of Deep Throat in any way, shape or form.

22:05

She says that Deep Throat is yanking his chain,

22:07

which I think seem like any

22:09

of our business.

22:12

But I think that Mulder makes

22:16

a good point because I also,

22:18

you know, who can tell with Deep

22:20

Throat? It's a wishy washy situation.

22:22

But I do agree with Mulder's assessment here

22:25

that like the whole Deep

22:27

Throat hides a lie

22:29

between two truths is

22:32

a thing. But that doesn't mean he would go out of his

22:34

way to call Mulder.

22:36

I mean, it wasn't like Mulder was

22:38

investigating a case and Deep Throat showed up and

22:40

like deterred him from this thing.

22:43

Like he literally was the only reason

22:45

that Mulder woke up and turned on Channel 8

22:47

and thought anything about this. So I feel like

22:49

he's got a leg to stand on. At least

22:52

one. So

22:55

they go down to the harbor carrying

22:58

the still of a guy at the crime scene

23:00

who happened to not be wearing a badge

23:02

or uniform and they're asking

23:04

the head cop,

23:06

you know, this guy, uh,

23:09

is he around and the cop

23:10

is like, there's so many people here. There's

23:13

simply so many people

23:15

at this point.

23:16

It's just it's

23:18

been 18

23:19

hours

23:20

since the man went into the water.

23:23

Just want to say that it's been 18 hours.

23:28

Are you leading us somewhere that I don't know where

23:30

you're leading us yet? No,

23:32

no, no. We'll, you know, we're just like we're just marking

23:34

time. OK, OK. The

23:36

cop catches Mulder in his lie.

23:39

I don't know why this cop even cares,

23:41

really, or would think to care. But Mulder

23:43

is like, yeah, the FBI were

23:45

here just because he matches the description of a

23:47

fugitive. And the cops like, we didn't release

23:50

the description. And then Scooby Doo and his gang

23:52

roll up, you know. But

23:55

they asked to look at the car that was involved

23:57

in this chase. It's also.

24:00

important to note that the chase

24:02

they discussed in the last scene was

24:04

like precipitated

24:07

by, is that the word? The,

24:09

like a moving violation. Like it was,

24:12

there was no crime. I mean

24:15

I guess a moving violation is a crime,

24:17

but you know what I mean? Like it was not like, this

24:19

guy like shot somebody and then fled

24:22

or like robbed a bank and then fled.

24:24

There was just a moving violation and it led to this.

24:26

Do we think that's real?

24:28

The moving violation? Yeah.

24:31

You know, Jenny, until now

24:34

I thought it was actually because of

24:36

a moving violation. I, in my mind, when

24:38

I heard that I was like, oh, this guy,

24:41

but I guess it doesn't make any sense because really what he

24:43

can't wind up, he can't wind up in a position where he's

24:45

in a hospital. So if he

24:47

was just getting pulled over by a police officer,

24:50

it's not like he has like a new identity or anything,

24:52

right? So,

24:55

so then no, then, then it can't

24:57

be, it has to be that they're, that they found out that this guy

24:59

is alive, but why would they involve the cops and

25:02

not just the feds? I don't know. I didn't think about

25:04

it. Well, maybe because

25:06

they view the cops as like expendable

25:09

foot soldiers. Right. Right. Right. And

25:12

yeah, maybe, I don't know. Maybe you'd think though,

25:14

based on the

25:14

way that crew cut man behaves

25:17

in this episode, that if they were to have found out

25:20

that this guy was alive, which

25:21

he certainly is not supposed to be, they would

25:23

have just pulled up in a very quiet

25:25

van and shot him in the head. Okay.

25:28

Yes. True. So then the question is, why was

25:31

Dr. Sequeir running? Doing

25:33

a moving violation. And running and

25:35

then running. Yeah. Like,

25:37

yeah. So if anybody knows what

25:39

we missed, please, please let

25:41

us know. This podcast is just about Jenny and I missing

25:44

things.

25:44

So it's actually probably

25:46

really entertaining because people love to, you

25:49

know, yell at us for what we

25:51

know, what we don't know and they know. So this is,

25:53

we're actually doing. I can hear the tapping

25:55

of keyboards across this great land as we

25:58

speak. All right.

25:59

Uh, okay.

26:03

So they go to see the car at the impound.

26:05

Mulder is carrying all these loose

26:08

photographs that he has printed out

26:10

stills from the news report he videotaped.

26:14

Uh,

26:15

and

26:16

oh, they notice a sticker

26:18

on the windshield in the

26:21

car on the news that's not

26:23

on the car at the impound. Uh,

26:26

and then Scully

26:28

is like, Oh, that symbol is called a caduceus.

26:31

It's the staff of Hermes. It's a, it's a

26:33

symbol adopted by medical professionals.

26:36

She,

26:37

Katie, explains Mulder.

26:39

I feel like Mulder would be familiar

26:41

with this symbol. I've seen this symbol.

26:44

Honestly, when I, because I looked up

26:46

this word based on how it was

26:48

like, I didn't even see the symbol. Like when

26:50

they, when this scene first happened for me, I didn't

26:53

see the symbol. I just heard the word and was like, Oh, I

26:55

want to see what this wild symbol is.

26:57

And I looked it up and was like, wait, that's just a doctor symbol.

27:00

Yeah. Um,

27:02

yeah. Um, Jenny,

27:05

I feel I'm as certain that Mulder

27:07

would be familiar with this as I am certain that

27:09

Scully knows the time difference between Connecticut

27:12

and California. Jenny,

27:15

I don't mean to step on your jingle

27:17

toes here, but Mulder had this picture enhanced.

27:38

The enhancement of this photo shows us

27:40

that the plates

27:42

on these cars are different.

27:45

They switched the fucking cars

27:46

and they lied about

27:48

it. Okay.

27:51

So onward to

27:53

the registered owner of this car,

27:56

Dr. Baroubi and his

27:58

100th

27:59

I just

28:02

watched, I haven't finished it yet, but I'm watching,

28:05

um, fucking, follow

28:07

the house of usher, you know, and I've had an end.

28:10

Like we're also listening to slayers and there's just

28:12

a lot of monkeys in my life right now. There's

28:14

just fucking monkeys everywhere I turn

28:17

every

28:17

which way. Uh, these monkeys

28:19

are lab monkeys.

28:21

I hate seeing lab

28:24

animals of any kind under any circumstance.

28:27

Um, but

28:29

you know what I hate even more? Scully being

28:32

a person who would stick her finger

28:34

in the cage, freaking the monkey out.

28:36

And she says, sorry, I thought they were friendly. What?

28:40

This is, uh,

28:41

just

28:45

1000% banana. It's golly as a medical doctor

28:48

need I remind you, she would not stick

28:50

her finger in a monkey

28:51

cage at a lab. It's so

28:53

funny too,

28:53

because like, if there was like a, obviously

28:56

like a plot line where, you know, she got bit

28:58

by the monkey and like there was a fear that

29:00

she had been contaminated with some of the alien

29:02

DNA or something, but there's like, I

29:05

couldn't figure out a single reason. Um, yeah,

29:08

but you would do this. Yeah. Yes. I have the

29:11

same note. Dr.

29:13

Barubi, Barubi or Ben Ruby,

29:15

Barubi, right?

29:16

Barubi. Dr. Barubi, giving

29:20

me a line that resonates

29:22

so deeply in my soul at

29:24

the end of this scene. Now, if you'll excuse

29:27

me, I have more work than time.

29:30

Yes. It hurt me to hear that. Like, Oh

29:33

yeah. And that's just, can I have that t-shirt

29:36

actually? So Mulder

29:37

proposes that

29:41

they talk to

29:43

the housekeeper that Dr. Barubi says uses

29:46

this car sometimes and Scully

29:48

is like,

29:49

I'm out. Deep throat

29:52

can

29:53

suck a dick. Sounds like that's

29:55

what he was going to do anyway.

29:56

Uh, and

29:59

then she

29:59

goes on to say, who is this deepthroat

30:02

character? I mean, we don't know anything about

30:04

him. What his

30:05

name is, what he does. He's in a delicate

30:07

position. He has access to information

30:10

and indiscretion could expose him.

30:11

He don't know that this isn't just a game with him.

30:14

He's toying with you, rationing

30:16

out the facts.

30:16

Do you think he does it because he gets off

30:19

on it? No.

30:21

I think he does it because you do.

30:23

And then she storms

30:26

off into the ladies room as

30:28

so many of us have on so

30:30

many an occasion, casting

30:34

one last scathing

30:36

glance back at Mulder over her shoulder

30:39

before she flounces

30:41

through the door. Yeah,

30:42

but she's like angry. She's

30:44

also like a little

30:46

turned on, you know, like she just she

30:49

just talked about how fucking Mulder

30:51

gets turned on by the

30:53

fucking bullshit that deepthroat

30:56

pulls. So I just feel like

30:58

maybe she's angry, but also

31:00

a little something else that maybe

31:02

she can't quite put her finger on, you

31:04

know, or maybe she can. Speaking

31:08

of putting fingers on things,

31:11

Mulder's heading into his

31:13

building when who should appear from the

31:17

darkening night

31:20

Christmas tale that involves deepthroat

31:22

and Mulder. Yeah,

31:23

yeah, yeah. Calling it

31:25

a night, Mr. Mulder. Mulder

31:28

says, my mother usually likes me home

31:30

before the streetlights come on,

31:32

which is

31:33

flirting. Oh, there's

31:35

deeply, deeply flirting

31:38

with deep throat from

31:40

day one says,

31:42

okay, okay, hold on now. Before

31:45

we go all flirting all the time,

31:47

I would like to say that I was pretty stoked

31:50

that Mulder actually

31:53

took some of what Scully said into this scene

31:55

with him. You know what I mean? Like he's

31:57

been defending deep throat

31:59

up and down.

31:59

all season long and it was nice that

32:02

he took some of that that scully

32:04

doubt with him and throw it back in

32:06

Deep Throat's face like I

32:08

just want you to know I'm not turned on by this

32:11

actually Deep

32:12

Throat.

32:15

Did you ever do you recall in the Sopranos

32:18

when Tony has been at

32:20

therapy with Dr. Melfi talking

32:23

about his frustrations with his aging mother

32:25

and like wanting to like

32:27

needing to figure out

32:30

a nursing home

32:31

like living situation for her because she has become

32:34

a little bit of a danger to

32:36

herself but she's

32:38

like very stubborn and she's just like really

32:41

she's a pretty unpleasant person

32:43

at least when you meet her in the show and

32:48

Dr. Melfi is like I know I know

32:51

seniors who are inspired and

32:53

inspiring and then she like says

32:55

a bunch of other stuff about you know like how like you

32:58

know maybe she just needs

33:00

this or maybe like this environment will be good

33:02

for whatever maybe it'll help her like be

33:04

less miserable 1000% of the time and then

33:08

later in the episode Tony is like having a conversation

33:10

with his mother which very quickly escalates

33:13

into a fight and then he just yells in her

33:15

face I know seniors who are inspired

33:17

and inspiring. He's

33:18

so mad and it's

33:21

uh I just really love when you see

33:24

when you see characters have

33:26

a conversation in an

33:27

episode and then later it like plays

33:30

it like you see that it has stayed with him totally

33:33

in either a very effective way like in this

33:36

instance or in a totally ineffective

33:38

way like Tony in the Sopranos.

33:42

Yeah these I

33:44

think that's real life I mean we all do that

33:46

right somebody says something to you that like chews

33:49

in on your brain and then it comes back out of your

33:51

mouth later. I love

33:54

this volley that they have

33:56

where Deep Throat is like I

33:58

fear you've become too.

33:59

dependent on me and what he means is like

34:02

Mulder isn't even doing his own work anymore he's just waiting

34:04

for

34:04

Deep Throat to show up with information and

34:07

Mulder's

34:07

like maybe it's you who've

34:10

become too dependent on me, my

34:12

willingness to play your games. Who

34:16

needs who more?

34:18

Deep Throat or Mulder?

34:20

This is another I feel like

34:23

hallmark of Chris Carter episodes.

34:26

episodes that are worded

34:29

like 20%

34:30

more formally than

34:33

would occur in real life.

34:36

Maybe it's you who's become too dependent

34:38

on me on

34:40

my willingness to play your games.

34:46

Contrary to what Deep Throat says at the end of this

34:49

episode he says don't give up on

34:51

this one trust me you've

34:54

never been closer.

34:55

Just

34:57

when I thought I was out

34:59

they pulled me back in. Dr.

35:05

Peruvian more work than time still

35:07

at the lab. Someone this man

35:09

doesn't even have time to flick a

35:12

light switch he is working in

35:14

a lab with absolutely no lights

35:16

on the sun is down how can you

35:19

even see what's under the microscope my

35:21

guy. This is so

35:23

relatable though do you ever just like look up

35:25

and you're sitting in the dark doing your work and you're like oh

35:28

fuck how did we how did this happen

35:31

I've done it again

35:32

but I'm staring at a well

35:35

lit computer screen. That's true that's true not

35:37

a dark microscope. I guess

35:40

microscopes sometimes have self-relating

35:42

light at the plate or whatever.

35:45

Also who knows maybe the alien

35:47

DNA is you know in kin.

35:49

Bioluminescent yeah yeah. Crew

35:53

Cat Man busts into

35:55

the office and

35:58

he asks if this guy.

35:59

Sakari

36:01

or Sakare, they say his name different 47

36:04

times in this episode, is alive

36:06

and asks if he contacted

36:07

Birubi and

36:09

then he kills, then

36:12

he kills him. So,

36:13

Kristen, that's really important

36:16

and good of you to note. However,

36:19

can I backpedal for one second

36:21

and tell you something I recently learned about? Please.

36:24

So we mentioned bioluminescence. Okay, yes.

36:26

A couple times on this show, as a matter of

36:28

fact.

36:29

Uh-uh. Uh-uh. I

36:31

recently was at a science center

36:33

with my beautiful child so he could

36:35

see sharks and stuff. And

36:38

I learned, somehow I've missed this my

36:40

whole life.

36:41

41 years and nobody ever told

36:43

me about biofluorescent. Wow. Fucking

36:46

squeaked in a 41 years the day before

36:48

her 42nd birthday. I'm

36:52

simply 41 years young, unlike

36:54

some people. But

36:58

did you know that biofluorescence is a

37:00

thing and it's different from bioluminescence?

37:03

Biofluorescent plants and organisms absorb

37:06

low wavelength or dim light that

37:08

emit high wavelength light that

37:10

makes the creatures glow

37:11

against a dark background. Isn't

37:14

that cool? And so bio,

37:16

that's biofluorescence? Uh-huh. And

37:19

bioluminescence is like a

37:22

substance that glows. It

37:25

doesn't need to absorb light, it's just on its

37:28

own like a fucking glow stick. Unlike

37:31

biofluorescence, where an organism

37:33

emits light upon excitation by an external

37:36

light source, bioluminescence is generated

37:38

by a chemical or biological reaction created within

37:40

the organism's body. Similar

37:43

to the reaction, this site says, that

37:45

you witness when cracking a glow stick. Oh

37:48

my god, I'm a scientist actually.

37:51

He's over here like a glow stick and then

37:53

the article is like a glow

37:55

stick. Paging, Dr. Russo.

37:58

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Okay, so...

41:15

Dr. Bre... it's really important to note this exchange,

41:18

where Dr. Bre was like, I must get back to my work,

41:20

I must get back to my work, and Crew Cup Man is like,

41:24

I'm afraid...

41:25

meaningful pause... your

41:29

work is done.

41:31

There's just like some real... there's

41:34

some real bat-cracking going on in this

41:36

episode. Also, I just feel like

41:38

if you're going to then, like, slowly

41:42

wrap gauze around someone's neck and throw them

41:44

out the window, like, this is a line

41:46

that I would think you'd say before you shoot somebody,

41:48

you know? I'm afraid your work hair is done. Boom.

41:51

Bang. Bang! Not like,

41:53

I'm afraid your work hair is done. I'm afraid your work hair is done.

41:59

Okay, stay

42:02

still be

42:02

quiet shut up monkeys, you know the monkeys

42:04

are okay, let me fucking the latch on

42:06

this window

42:11

Okay, and

42:13

Sproing

42:17

wow,

42:18

that's what I've always wanted a day. Oh great.

42:20

Yeah, welcome to Jenny

42:23

own young Foley hour Uh

42:27

It's funny it's very funny. Okay, so

42:29

back at the harbor

42:31

Kristen they're calling off the search.

42:33

It's been okay.

42:34

Okay

42:36

three days

42:39

They they finally give up and

42:42

and scoot their little boats out of this area

42:44

of the harbor and dr Sequeira's little head

42:46

immediately pops up out of the water looking like Nev

42:48

Campbell and Denise Richards on the wild things movies

42:50

poster

42:52

Kristen

42:53

if he can breathe underwater as we learn later

42:56

Why didn't he go? literally

42:59

anywhere else while underwater

43:02

and get out

43:03

of the fucking water Before

43:05

three days had elapsed imagine

43:07

all the harbor bacteria

43:09

that has been absorbed through that bullet

43:11

wound Maybe maybe it's

43:13

like, you know that fantasy that some people

43:16

have like who would go to your funeral You

43:18

know like like you want to be able to be there.

43:20

He's like who would search for

43:22

me if I were Wow

43:25

three different squads searching

43:27

for me I

43:30

also read that this actor

43:33

who plays six a car cicares

43:35

a car II whatever Simon or Webb

43:37

is

43:40

Absolutely terrified of water and had

43:42

to do yes scenes So,

43:44

you know hat tip to him for

43:46

this and also when he looks really afraid he

43:48

actually is that's actually is an acting so Okay,

43:54

um I say in my no

43:57

hear that Scully and Mulder are now crunching

43:59

through some

43:59

glass at the monkey lab. They're like,

44:02

oh, what a beautiful autumn day.

44:05

I love walking through the

44:06

woods. Crunch, crunch,

44:09

crunch in her heels. Oh, Mulder

44:12

is, Jenny, Mulder

44:14

is touching every

44:16

single thing in the room

44:19

with his bare hands. He's

44:20

like, is this happening? Is this happening?

44:26

Yeah. Now listen,

44:30

how many Erlenmeyer flasks do

44:32

you currently have in your lab marked purity

44:35

control? Sadly, none, but

44:37

that's about to change.

44:39

Good, good, good, good. And you?

44:43

I am actually not at liberty to say.

44:47

So was Barubie leaving? Did

44:50

he put the fucking password on the

44:52

bottom of the Erlenmeyer flask because

44:55

just in case. Was

44:59

he forgetful? No, I think it's like, I

45:01

don't think he's forgetful. I think it's just what

45:03

the like the code word for

45:06

the project. So he was like labeling it for,

45:09

it

45:09

just feels like if that's the code word that

45:11

gets you admission to touch the alien

45:14

baby that well, but then you don't have to know where

45:16

to go. And then

45:18

you have to be a medical doctor. You need one ID badge

45:24

stating that you are a medical daughter. Medical

45:28

daughter, medical daughter,

45:33

medical daughters. They're just like sons,

45:35

but

45:35

they're girls, medically.

45:37

I don't know if you can believe this, Jenny,

45:40

but sometimes you actually can be a father of a

45:42

medical daughter. So

45:44

imagine being the medical father

45:47

of a medical daughter. So in

45:50

order to get into

45:52

the right spot, you need an ID. You

45:54

can be any kind of medical doctor, and then you get an

45:57

ID

45:58

card where you have a.

45:59

a photo where you just look like a total

46:02

smoldering smoke show.

46:05

She's got, Scully has yet

46:07

another identification

46:10

badge

46:11

where she just looks like she

46:14

is professionally modeling. I

46:16

mean, Zenny, if she didn't have

46:18

a whole bunch of those to offer up, no

46:20

one would ever know she was a lady, so it's

46:22

important. Okay. Okay.

46:25

All right.

46:26

So we find out that,

46:29

which doesn't seem to be a big deal to Scully,

46:31

that Barubie was working

46:33

on the Human Genome Project, which

46:35

is the mapping of human genes. Mulder's

46:38

like, of course I know what that is. It's perhaps

46:40

the most ambitious scientific endeavor in

46:42

the history of mankind. Also

46:45

I feel like this is,

46:47

correct me if I, how did you

46:49

respond to this? Because I heard it and I was like, oh yeah, the human

46:51

genome project, why are they explaining this? We

46:54

all know. We all know. But

46:56

you have to remember. We also all know what

46:59

zeros and ones are.

47:00

We do.

47:01

But also the Human Genome

47:03

Project started in 1990, so it has been something that

47:05

has been

47:09

in our consciousness for a long

47:11

time. How long has it been since 1990, like 10

47:13

years? Yeah, about 10

47:15

years.

47:15

So, you know.

47:18

But I think then this

47:21

was like,

47:22

this is also, I wanted to say this about this episode.

47:24

I think something that I really fucking love

47:26

about this episode and some of the other episodes of

47:28

this season are when you can

47:31

really see the science that's happening

47:33

and the conversations that are happening in real time

47:35

and how they're being threaded through the storylines.

47:38

I think that's very fun. Like

47:41

these writers are living in a time where they

47:43

are mapping. The Human Genome Project went

47:45

from 90 to 2003. It

47:49

was 2003 when we were like, we got it.

47:51

We got the map, you know? And so like, this

47:54

is a fucking massive deal in

47:56

like ways that could be really

47:58

incredible and so powerful.

47:59

And also that can feel, especially if you

48:03

dabble in the land of sci-fi, you're

48:05

like, oh, what comes after

48:07

this? Where do we go

48:09

after this? And using that in storylines

48:12

for shows like this, I just love that. I love

48:14

when people are thinking these thoughts over the

48:16

bar table and talking about this shit,

48:19

and then they're also putting it in television shows where

48:21

aliens exist.

48:22

Yes. Mm-hmm.

48:24

Mm-hmm. Okay. And I know that

48:26

Kelly's like, I can see the pieces of what we're doing here,

48:29

but I'm really not seeing the connection.

48:32

And Mulder's like, listen, maybe we're not seeing it because

48:34

it cannot be seen in an

48:36

obvious way. Take this Erlenmeyer

48:38

flask. This is what is called an Erlenmeyer

48:40

flask. Take it, please. And

48:42

take it to... Can you find... First you

48:45

Erlen, then you Meyer. First you Erlen, then you Meyer. Can you please find

48:47

a lady who you might also want to flirt with? And

48:50

can you guys just do a little lady on lady

48:52

science so you can find out what's in the flask? Scully

48:55

is like, if this is monkey pee,

48:58

you're on your own.

48:59

Honestly, same. That's very cute.

49:03

Not monkey pee, but they're quips.

49:05

Yeah.

49:07

In case you're wondering if one

49:10

of us is 42 and the other one is about to

49:12

be 42, I will say

49:14

that my first note when we get to Berube's house

49:17

is, Terrence, we love

49:19

this sage exterior paint

49:21

with the dark green trim. I absolutely love it. I

49:23

took it down. It's for future house

49:25

color combos. Terrence

49:28

has a beautiful house. Yeah.

49:32

Well, I mean,

49:33

he is a very important scientist with more

49:36

work than time. And

49:39

he employs a housekeeper. Yeah. He

49:41

never gets to hang out in his house together. He's

49:45

never been to that house,

49:46

actually.

49:48

Poor Terry. Okay, so Mulder

49:51

does a little B and E and then we cut to Georgetown

49:53

University Microbiology Department.

49:56

One good doctor deserves another.

49:59

Don't mind. if I do, Dr. Ann Carpenter.

50:02

I'm sorry,

50:05

but like,

50:06

there was flirting between Lazard

50:10

and Scully a couple episodes ago.

50:13

Okay, nothing like this. It

50:16

has not been since Felicity Huffman and

50:18

Scully were naked checking each other for

50:20

worms that I

50:23

have seen. I just want everyone to know that I

50:25

witnessed a full spectrum of human

50:27

emotion

50:29

just go

50:31

through Jenny's entire face. Really,

50:35

you took me on a ride.

50:36

That was the coming

50:38

of age story if ever I've seen one

50:41

or experienced one. But

50:44

these two

50:45

are flirting from the moment they meet until

50:48

the moment one of them sadly perishes.

50:51

Kristin!

50:54

What the hell does we've

50:56

come a long way from Colonel Mustard

50:59

in the den with the rope, haven't we,

51:01

mean? I don't know what it

51:03

means! It's so funny. I'll

51:05

try to figure out what it means in a second, but I just moved aside

51:08

so Jenny could see that on the chair behind me is

51:10

the board game clue. So

51:13

I actually, yeah, I actually

51:15

have direct knowledge of this. I mean, I guess

51:19

she's just saying like, wow, back

51:21

in the olden days we just had to guess who did

51:23

a crime, but now you can bring me this Erlenmeyer

51:25

flask and I can do science on it

51:28

and we can find out more. Um, okay,

51:31

okay, okay. So Dr. Carpenter is so stoked.

51:37

We love a Ladies in STEM

51:40

scene no matter where we get it, but

51:43

like these two geeking out

51:45

over this bacteria in a virus, in

51:47

a bacteria in a virus or whatever the fuck they're

51:49

looking at is really good to me. Um,

51:53

she says it's the size of bacteria, but like

51:55

nothing she's ever seen. And then

51:57

she says we could

51:59

do a freeze fracture.

52:01

if you don't mind waiting.

52:03

Wink, wink, wink. Nudge,

52:05

nudge, wink, wink. But what will

52:07

we do while they freeze and fracture?

52:11

It's none

52:13

of our business. It is none of our business.

52:17

Okay, so at the

52:20

at Terrence Barubie's home, Mulder

52:22

finds

52:23

the only phone number that Terrence

52:25

Barubie has ever called. Just

52:27

over and over and over and over and over

52:29

again. The only time he's ever gone home is to

52:31

call this phone number and then leave again. That

52:33

was sad for this man. You

52:36

know what? He fucked up monkey. So he's

52:38

actually fine.

52:40

Yeah, okay.

52:43

Oh my gosh, this is so okay. So Mulder

52:45

calls his FBI pal to get

52:48

info about this number, but then Dr. Sequeir

52:50

calls this number and he's in a phone booth

52:52

and he's fading fast and he passes out before

52:55

he can tell Mulder where he is and the guy who

52:57

finds him is like, hello, I'm

52:59

hanging up on you. I will tell you where your

53:01

friend is. I have to call an ambulance.

53:03

Friends, if you show up to a pay phone

53:06

and a man has collapsed and is oozing

53:09

green blood and there's another man on the other

53:11

end saying, what street? Where do

53:13

I go? You just say, this

53:15

is the street and then you hang up and you bring the alien.

53:18

And then

53:18

you call the ambulance. Yeah, actually, honestly,

53:20

if you see anybody oozing green, you should

53:23

just yell the street and then run as fast

53:25

as you can. But Jenny,

53:27

I do think that the only reason that Crew Cut Man

53:29

does not shoot Mulder is because

53:31

this dude is horrible at dealing

53:34

with emergencies and so does not tell

53:36

Mulder where Sequeir

53:38

is. Sequeir.

53:40

Sequeir. They say it differently.

53:43

Sequeir. Only everybody

53:45

says Sequeir and Berube except

53:48

Jerry Harden.

53:49

Who says Sequeir and Berube.

53:51

Okay, we, Danny calls back.

53:57

And

54:01

Mulder, this is what's amazing to me, crew cut

54:03

dude in his car, he was waiting

54:05

basically, at least

54:06

I presume, he was waiting to see if Mulder

54:09

got information about the whereabouts of the care.

54:12

But

54:13

he doesn't. And then crew cut man

54:15

doesn't care.

54:15

He doesn't care about any other information. He takes

54:17

the fucking headset off right when Danny is like, So,

54:20

Zeus storage, 1616

54:22

Pandora Street, it

54:24

just seems like the crew cut man would also fucking

54:26

care if Mulder was gonna find five dudes

54:29

floating in liquid

54:30

in a storage space. But,

54:32

whatever.

54:34

Alright Jenny, are you ready for this fucking ambulance

54:37

ride of death? Because, if you're

54:40

an EMT, you better be careful. I'm

54:42

telling you what. Sweet, gentle

54:44

EMT is doing their best with a green

54:47

bleeding extraterrestrial, terrible

54:50

news. They do a needily decompression.

54:55

And he starts emitting a toxic gas

54:57

that

54:58

fucks them up.

55:01

And then he exits the ambulance and flees.

55:03

And Chris and I believe you have some information

55:05

about the inspo

55:06

for this particular

55:07

feature of the episode. Yes, in

55:09

the production documents from producer Latoya

55:11

Ferguson, there was a link that simply said WTF?

55:15

And it linked to the Wikipedia

55:17

article for a woman

55:19

named Gloria Ramirez. That

55:22

is who this sort of scene

55:25

was inspired from. Gloria Ramirez

55:28

lived from 1963 to 1994. She

55:32

lived in Riverside, California, and she was dubbed,

55:34

I did not dub her this, but she was dubbed the

55:36

toxic lady by the media.

55:39

I didn't, don't look at me. I'm just

55:41

reading the words. Several hospital

55:44

workers became ill after airborne exposure

55:46

to her body and blood. She was

55:48

admitted to the ER after suffering

55:51

from late stage cervical cancer. And

55:53

while treating her, several hospital

55:56

workers fainted. Others experienced symptoms

55:58

such as shortness of breath and muscles.

55:59

spasms, five required hospitalizations,

56:02

and one of them remained in intensive care for two

56:05

weeks.

56:06

The

56:08

initial assessment of this was that it was mass

56:10

hysteria, but actually after

56:12

an investigation, it was proposed

56:15

and then later confirmed that Ramirez

56:17

had actually been self-administering dimethyl

56:20

sulfoxide as a treatment for pain,

56:23

and that converted into dimethyl

56:26

sulfate,

56:26

which is extremely poisonous and

56:29

a

56:29

highly carcinogenic alkylating

56:32

agent via a series of

56:37

chemical reactions in the emergency room. She

56:39

was not allegedly an alien,

56:42

but the things coming from her

56:44

body seriously harmed the medical

56:49

professionals around her.

56:50

It's not good. No. Not

56:53

good. Pretty fucking wild.

56:55

Back at Georgetown University, Dana

56:58

Scully in silhouette and in

57:00

profile calling Mulder.

57:03

She was like, he's going to love this. He

57:05

won't be able to see me, but he'll be able to tell how

57:08

I look somehow. I

57:10

cannot get enough of this

57:12

tiny little scene where

57:15

she's like,

57:16

no. She's trying to tell Mulder what she's

57:18

discovered, and she's so excited.

57:19

We've all been- We've

57:22

all

57:22

been- We've all been waiting for this, Jenny. We've been waiting

57:24

for this moment for the whole series.

57:27

She's been waiting to have these words

57:29

to tell Mulder so Mulder can finally smooch

57:32

her. She's finally gotten here.

57:34

She's like, I may be understanding

57:36

the strangest Mulder bacteria like this

57:39

hasn't existed for millions of years. Don't

57:42

you remember saying millions of

57:44

years? Not she gets so dramatic. Not since

57:46

before our ancestors first crawled

57:49

out of the sea.

57:49

Are you their mother? Mulder,

57:52

do you hear me? She's like, yes,

57:54

Kelly, keep up the good work. And she literally

57:57

is like, click.

57:59

The scoff, the

58:02

incredulity. I

58:04

did everything he wanted and he still was

58:06

lucky. It's

58:07

weird. I feel significantly more

58:09

seen by Dr. Ann Carpenter

58:12

and I've only known her for

58:13

a matter of hours. Yes.

58:17

Okay, over to Zeus storage.

58:20

Huge news, Kristen. There are bodies in tanks.

58:22

There are humanoids in liquid.

58:26

They have all miraculously

58:29

been positioned for modesty. What luck.

58:32

I don't even remember where I read

58:33

this. It was probably in La Toya's notes, like cribbed from

58:36

one of the like behind the scenes in the X-Files. But there

58:38

was this quote that was like,

58:40

once the ladies found out there were

58:42

naked men, there were many ladies on set

58:45

the day this was filmed. And I was like, no

58:47

way. Okay,

58:49

gentlemen, I don't like

58:51

to see the footage.

58:55

Women notoriously love to

58:57

see

58:58

flaccid penises floating in the

59:01

number one thing that will draw them to set. That

59:06

all said, this scene is stunning.

59:09

Like I was as excited as

59:12

I was about the car chase scene for

59:14

different reasons in this scene. This is like a beautiful.

59:16

The lighting is beautiful.

59:18

The

59:18

way that these they have divers. These are

59:21

divers in these tanks so that they can

59:23

like stay underwater for a long time. They didn't

59:25

have to like make something fake. These are real humans

59:28

down under the water. I

59:30

love this. I again, just sort of like

59:33

going into season two.

59:34

I want more

59:36

of like this vibe. This is what I picture

59:39

when I picture the X-Files.

59:42

Yeah, this feels, you know, revelatory.

59:45

This feels like a season finale

59:48

moment. This feels like

59:51

it's it's like eerie and beautiful. And

59:53

the scope that is implied

59:55

by

59:56

like, yes, and the events of this

59:58

episode, it's just like you're really. starting to feel like

1:00:01

this thing is like really

1:00:03

big. Yeah.

1:00:05

Yeah. And goes deep.

1:00:08

Speaking of going deep,

1:00:11

back at the Georgetown. Oh my goodness. I'm

1:00:13

sorry. I'm really sorry. I there

1:00:15

was nothing else I could do.

1:00:18

Scully fell asleep on the

1:00:19

couch. Hell yeah. She did.

1:00:22

And okay, so Dr.

1:00:24

Carpenter comes in and she's like,

1:00:26

you're a lady who knows about molecular

1:00:28

biology. So I don't even

1:00:30

have to tell you where you're looking at. Why don't you tell me

1:00:32

and Scully's like genes. And then they have a science

1:00:35

discussion and they get turned on and

1:00:37

it's great. Um, and we,

1:00:39

but wouldn't somebody

1:00:42

who is a medical doctor understand

1:00:45

about

1:00:46

nucleotides already, maybe

1:00:48

about nucleotides, but I don't

1:00:50

know if Scully would, I

1:00:53

mean, you know, this idea

1:00:55

that for nucleotides exist in DNA

1:00:57

and every living thing is created

1:00:59

from the four basic building blocks. Wild.

1:01:03

I don't know. It's wild. It's, I

1:01:05

needed the information. So maybe they were just

1:01:08

being kind in case anyone else was in

1:01:10

the room. And no, sure,

1:01:12

sure, sure, sure. Um,

1:01:14

but let's listen to, uh, the

1:01:17

end of this conversation

1:01:18

between Dr. Carpenter. Um, and

1:01:20

I have to say, this might be none of your business, but

1:01:23

let's listen to them. Have the rest

1:01:25

of this exchange.

1:01:26

Normally

1:01:28

we'd find no gaps

1:01:30

in the sequence,

1:01:31

but with these bacteria, we do.

1:01:34

Why is that?

1:01:36

I don't know why, but I

1:01:38

tell you under any other circumstances,

1:01:41

my first call would have been to the government.

1:01:44

What exactly did you find?

1:01:48

DNA nucleotide,

1:01:51

a new base pair.

1:01:54

Agent Scully,

1:01:55

what you are looking at exists

1:01:59

nowhere in.

1:01:59

nature.

1:02:01

It would have to be by definition

1:02:04

extraterrestrial.

1:02:10

That feeling when your

1:02:12

crush says it would have to be

1:02:14

by definition extraterrestrial.

1:02:17

Oh,

1:02:18

my God.

1:02:22

I simply can't handle it. I can't. I

1:02:25

cannot handle it. And like this, here's the thing. I could

1:02:27

not handle the scene between these two women. Nor

1:02:30

could I handle the extraterrestrial

1:02:33

discovery that is scientifically

1:02:35

being told by a scientist to

1:02:37

scully because that's

1:02:40

how it has to happen for her to believe right?

1:02:43

Yeah, then Jenny, the next fucking

1:02:45

moment I'm like recovering from this. The

1:02:48

next moment we go to zoo storage where Mulder

1:02:50

is walking outside is chased by men and suddenly runs

1:02:53

and single swoops his whole

1:02:55

body over a huge fence.

1:02:57

I'm

1:02:58

unwell in my

1:03:01

in my body and my soul.

1:03:03

It is legitimate.

1:03:05

It is good. And

1:03:10

I'm breathing and it's very chill.

1:03:15

Um, Scully calls Mulder to

1:03:17

find out where the fuck he's been all night. And

1:03:20

he's very cryptic and says he had

1:03:22

a situation. Okay. Um,

1:03:25

she she tries again. She's like,

1:03:27

I didn't get him the first time that I'm

1:03:28

gonna here we go. I'm gonna use the word

1:03:30

he needs extraterrestrial.

1:03:33

She

1:03:35

I'm sorry.

1:03:36

My next note is it's not funny,

1:03:38

but I'm gonna read it to you anyway. Because I write

1:03:41

that Scully says

1:03:42

they're saying it could be extraterrestrial and then that

1:03:44

Mulder says you need to come

1:03:46

over here because I have to show you something and then

1:03:48

underneath that and parenthetical I wrote

1:03:51

his boner.

1:04:03

So, Skully

1:04:05

rolls up to Zeus storage. It

1:04:08

seems

1:04:09

like a mistake that Mulder left

1:04:12

the storage place and

1:04:15

then came back but not until hours

1:04:17

later and has not gone back inside

1:04:19

before Skully arrives. And

1:04:22

she's like, I just, they

1:04:24

have this exchange that we opened the episode with

1:04:27

about like Skully being like, I'm sorry.

1:04:29

And Mulder's like, it's okay.

1:04:32

I feel

1:04:34

like we've had 24 episodes and there have been

1:04:36

plenty of times where Mulder was perhaps

1:04:39

barking up the wrong alien tree. So

1:04:42

you know, I appreciate this very nice apology,

1:04:45

but Mulder never

1:04:47

apologized and her apologizes. And

1:04:52

Skully has a really big moment for her. And

1:04:54

in which she says that she has always

1:04:56

held science as sacred.

1:04:59

She's always put her trust in accepted facts.

1:05:04

But for the first time in her life, she doesn't know what to believe.

1:05:08

What do you think about that?

1:05:11

I'm pretty into it. I really didn't think we'd get

1:05:13

here. I did not think that

1:05:15

Dana Skully would be carrying

1:05:18

a preserved alien fetus in

1:05:20

a brown cardboard box under her arm by

1:05:23

the end of season one. I did not. I

1:05:25

really did not. I am delighted. On

1:05:27

your window card. Yeah. I

1:05:29

mean, because like, you know, I

1:05:31

know that Skully, I mean, clearly she'll have

1:05:34

to continue to be a skeptic in

1:05:36

some way, shape or form. But the fact that we already

1:05:38

have Skully knowing that there

1:05:41

is an alien fucking fetus preserved,

1:05:44

like that is pretty massive.

1:05:47

And I like it. I'm

1:05:49

happy. And I love this exchange. I

1:05:51

think, you know, I mean, I think that

1:05:53

we've talked about the fact that in our

1:05:56

opinion, or at least I'll say in mine, this season

1:05:58

was too long. many episodes,

1:06:00

they had to recycle too many ideas, but if

1:06:02

you follow the best points of the season,

1:06:06

like, and and

1:06:07

set them up so that this is earned, this

1:06:09

is an amazing moment. Like, this

1:06:12

is really

1:06:13

what we've been reaching for and what Mulder's

1:06:15

been reaching for

1:06:16

for a very long time, and I think it's good

1:06:19

and great. And

1:06:22

I also would like

1:06:23

to say that in the middle of

1:06:25

this clip that we played up at

1:06:27

the top of the episode, same thing happens.

1:06:31

Scully says, I

1:06:33

should know by now to trust your instincts.

1:06:36

Debatable.

1:06:36

Sidebar. Mulder says,

1:06:39

why?

1:06:40

Nobody else does. And

1:06:42

Scully smiles a smile that

1:06:44

is so fucking radiant,

1:06:47

and they look into each other's eyes,

1:06:49

and they fall in love just a little bit more.

1:06:52

They make, oh my god,

1:06:53

a significant eye contact.

1:06:56

Hit that jingle.

1:07:01

God bless us, everyone. Oh,

1:07:04

Jenny, crew cut man

1:07:06

carried away those tanks, he just put them all in his van,

1:07:08

he drove away. How was that?

1:07:10

By himself. That van was

1:07:13

not big, I'm confused.

1:07:13

Yeah,

1:07:16

they probably just,

1:07:18

like, destroyed, like, they probably just got these guys

1:07:21

out of the tanks, killed them all, and dumped

1:07:23

all the water. Like, what did they, I don't know what the cleanup was,

1:07:25

but it probably was

1:07:26

guys in hazmat suits that will never

1:07:28

speak to anyone about what they've done.

1:07:30

They're gone. Yeah, yeah.

1:07:32

And it kind of doesn't, I mean, also

1:07:34

something nice about this episode, I think, is that it kind of

1:07:36

doesn't matter that they're gone for

1:07:38

Scully, right? Like, it ultimately, you

1:07:40

know, most other episodes Scully doesn't see the

1:07:43

thing, and then she doesn't believe, but in this instance,

1:07:45

it doesn't matter that they're gone. She

1:07:48

ultimately believes that they were there, so

1:07:50

that's

1:07:50

also nice.

1:07:53

I gassed. I

1:07:55

gassed. When deep throat water. Was that

1:07:57

dad showed up?

1:07:59

never shows up when Scully is there. Never!

1:08:02

And I was like,

1:08:03

oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, they're in the same room. What's

1:08:05

gonna happen? Holy shit.

1:08:09

He calls her Miss. Well, there's like, Gully. Dad.

1:08:13

Dad, I was chased. And he was like, if

1:08:15

you were chased,

1:08:15

you'd be dead.

1:08:17

They wanted to kill you. We

1:08:20

wouldn't be having this conversation. They're standing

1:08:22

in the room where the first human-alien

1:08:25

hybrid was made.

1:08:27

Why not?

1:08:28

Deep Throat is telling them so

1:08:30

many things. They're

1:08:33

getting such an info dump, and Scully's like,

1:08:36

there's just one thing I don't understand. Just

1:08:38

one thing? Scully? There

1:08:41

are a lot of things I don't understand. I don't

1:08:43

know. I mean, they got this alien baby. They

1:08:46

used its tissue. They made a human-alien

1:08:48

hybrid. Six terminally ill patients

1:08:50

signed up to get these transplants,

1:08:53

and all six of them, they began to recover

1:08:56

because extraterrestrials fucking

1:08:58

don't get cancer. You know what I mean? Extraterrestrial.

1:09:01

Incredible immune system. They

1:09:05

also developed inhuman strength and

1:09:07

the ability to breathe underwater.

1:09:10

Why not?

1:09:11

Why the fuck not?

1:09:12

So we've talked about this, like, you know, Seqir

1:09:15

was running from the

1:09:17

fact that he was never supposed

1:09:19

to survive. The

1:09:22

government, the black ops, whoever the

1:09:24

fuck is doing this shit,

1:09:25

didn't give a fuck about curing

1:09:28

terminally ill patients. Of course they

1:09:30

didn't. They just wanted the science.

1:09:33

They wanted the tech. They wanted to know that they

1:09:35

had the abilities to use them probably

1:09:37

for forces of evil in the future should

1:09:39

they so need them. But

1:09:42

Dr. Barubie was friends

1:09:44

with Seqir. Maybe they were

1:09:46

smooching, and so he warned him,

1:09:49

and that's why he didn't get killed.

1:09:51

Okay, I mean,

1:09:53

when Seqir calls Barubie's

1:09:55

house, he does say Terry. Everyone

1:09:57

else calls him Terrence. So it's a... point

1:10:01

to you perhaps some intimacy. Yeah

1:10:04

and maybe that's why like you know he had that

1:10:06

big beautiful house

1:10:07

is for you know they

1:10:09

had like wine there and they cooked each other dinner. And

1:10:12

maybe the reason

1:10:14

that Peruvian is so absorbed in his work is because his

1:10:17

lover is missing

1:10:18

you know. Okay

1:10:20

okay okay.

1:10:22

After we miss Lyle and fucking

1:10:25

you know what I mean like after we miss the gay lovers

1:10:27

in shapes I just now

1:10:30

have to be very careful. Yeah we've got to turn

1:10:32

every stone over. Yeah.

1:10:35

So Deep Far tells them that

1:10:37

they need to find some care and that they won't hear

1:10:39

anything else from him about this. Okay

1:10:41

dad. Scully goes back

1:10:44

to the microbiology department and Kristen

1:10:46

you will not believe this. What are

1:10:48

the odds? But Dr. Carpenter was in a terrible

1:10:50

car accident with her whole family and she is

1:10:53

dead. Okay

1:10:55

and so

1:10:56

just like the tales all this time bury

1:10:58

your gaze you know what I mean? Just one

1:11:01

smooch with scully and there she goes killed.

1:11:03

I don't care for this. No

1:11:06

I don't either. Bring her back.

1:11:08

Bring her back.

1:11:11

Okay so Mulder

1:11:14

is back at Barubie's house and someone

1:11:16

is there. It's sick car. Sick

1:11:18

hair. I'm so sorry. I'll never

1:11:20

get it right. Jenny in this moment

1:11:22

when I was watching this this episode

1:11:25

Mulder opens up that attic

1:11:27

and climbs up the ladder and I turned

1:11:30

to Avanti and I said

1:11:31

imagine that

1:11:32

Chevy Chase was just up there watching his old

1:11:35

Christmas movie on the projector

1:11:38

and I want so badly for

1:11:41

the cut to be made of just like Mulder

1:11:44

going up and then cutting to

1:11:46

look at

1:11:46

Chevy Chase up there. It's the same attic. I swear

1:11:49

to God.

1:11:53

Sick hair is up there. He attacks Mulder.

1:11:56

Mulder says he's gonna protect him but then

1:12:00

Someone in a gas mask shoots

1:12:03

him and

1:12:05

Mulder is burned the same way that the guys

1:12:07

in the ambulance were burned by the noxious

1:12:10

fumes coming out of this alien human.

1:12:13

Yeah when Mulder wakes up and his face

1:12:16

is all fucked up, this is

1:12:18

from the fumes. Yeah. Not

1:12:20

from crew cut men punching him in the face

1:12:22

a bunch. Yeah and I actually didn't

1:12:25

know that until I read some of the like behind the scenes

1:12:27

stuff and

1:12:27

it talked about how

1:12:30

David Duchovny, this makeup was like

1:12:32

a real

1:12:34

pain in the ass and he had to wear

1:12:36

it for a long time and what have you and in that

1:12:38

it talked about how it was from you

1:12:40

know the fumes or whatever but I because

1:12:43

his wrists are duct taped together

1:12:45

it is very easy to think

1:12:48

that they beat the shit out of him but

1:12:50

yeah that's not what's being implied.

1:12:52

Okay

1:12:53

you

1:12:55

know that feeling when

1:12:57

your two girlfriends run

1:12:59

into each other at the door

1:13:01

to your apartment

1:13:03

and it's so embarrassing for

1:13:06

everyone. So embarrassing

1:13:08

this is just like Brandi and Monica you know

1:13:10

what I mean this is happening. Deep

1:13:14

throat immediately claiming ownership

1:13:17

like popping out from behind the bush and being like he's not

1:13:19

home so

1:13:20

nice that you tried but I actually

1:13:22

know so oh

1:13:27

my goodness.

1:13:28

Deep throat says

1:13:30

that he knows that they're not gonna kill Mulder

1:13:33

because he's become too

1:13:35

high-profile.

1:13:36

He says that Scully has evidence

1:13:38

that could expose them and she's like

1:13:39

but I don't and then deep

1:13:41

throat is like

1:13:42

but did you know that

1:13:44

you're a medical doctor?

1:13:54

Because

1:13:56

of your medical background I could get you

1:13:58

into this incredibly high

1:14:01

security, super

1:14:03

secret government

1:14:05

project. And

1:14:09

I know we'll probably talk about this when we get

1:14:11

to it, but

1:14:12

since he's going to get Scully into this

1:14:15

facility and since he's already sharing

1:14:17

all this information with him,

1:14:19

are we to believe that Deep Throat

1:14:21

knows he's fucking dead? From the

1:14:24

moment he walked into that room with the tanks that

1:14:26

he knows he's dead? Because

1:14:28

it feels like that to me, that he's

1:14:30

just giving them everything he can give them.

1:14:36

And I also think it's the reason that he argues as much

1:14:38

as he argues with Scully

1:14:39

about who's going to do the trade. Oh,

1:14:43

look at that. Yeah,

1:14:45

I could see that.

1:14:48

And I don't know, because

1:14:50

for those of

1:14:51

you who've seen more of the series,

1:14:53

there's likely more that we will learn about.

1:14:55

I mean, probably we'll get some more on Deep Throat.

1:14:58

So maybe there's more

1:15:00

information that will be filled in

1:15:02

later. But at first I was

1:15:04

really annoyed when he was on the bridge and

1:15:07

wouldn't let Scully do anything. But then when

1:15:09

everything unfolded, I was like, oh my God,

1:15:11

Deep Throat was just making sure that she

1:15:13

stayed alive?

1:15:15

Question mark.

1:15:16

I mean, yeah. Well, I

1:15:19

have questions when we get there. Okay.

1:15:21

For now, so

1:15:24

we have a listener, as

1:15:25

you know, we've talked about a few times who asks questions

1:15:28

to their sister who

1:15:30

is in the FBI, I believe actually retired

1:15:32

now from the FBI. And I was thinking so

1:15:35

much about this sister's response to us

1:15:37

asking if FBI agents are trained

1:15:39

to be sneaky and being like,

1:15:41

no, because FBI agents

1:15:43

don't have to be sneaky. That's

1:15:46

not usually in the job description of being

1:15:48

in the FBI. Really clearly

1:15:50

no training for being sneaky.

1:15:53

Once again, she looks as suspicious as

1:15:55

I would look if I was trying to break into the facility.

1:15:58

Project password.

1:16:00

Looks everywhere.

1:16:02

Is it called Red

1:16:06

Bell? Is it called Doorknob?

1:16:08

Is it

1:16:10

called

1:16:11

Increasingly Angry Security

1:16:14

Card? She just like

1:16:16

even every time she swipes the key

1:16:18

card in any swiper, I feel like she holds

1:16:20

up the card and looks left right up,

1:16:23

down before she swipes the card. Like

1:16:25

she's just, it's just

1:16:27

not slick, but she fucking, she

1:16:30

had a hunch, Jenny. She fucking had a hunch.

1:16:33

Her hunch was right. She guessed purity control

1:16:35

and that was the fucking project that was. Thankfully she didn't guess

1:16:38

monkey piss. This

1:16:40

is all taking place, by the way, on floor

1:16:43

seven, the cryology

1:16:45

floor for her. It's

1:16:49

where you get a cry, you know? You gotta

1:16:52

have some feelings. You gotta go up to

1:16:54

level seven. I mean, how

1:16:56

do you think I know what it's for? I

1:16:59

have been there myself. It

1:17:02

just says level seven, comma, if you have

1:17:04

something in your eye. Yeah. Yeah.

1:17:08

Okay. So Scully

1:17:10

opens this big Jurassic Park

1:17:13

tube and what,

1:17:15

lo and behold,

1:17:18

but what to her wondering eyes should

1:17:20

appear but a tiny

1:17:22

frozen alien baby,

1:17:25

which she then just muggles out

1:17:27

somehow. She just walks out

1:17:29

of this place. And it is pretty small.

1:17:32

It's pretty small. She's a lady, so she

1:17:34

probably has a purse at least the size of an alien

1:17:36

baby, you know?

1:17:39

Kristen, let me tell you what. The first test

1:17:41

shot of Scully removing the alien

1:17:44

fetus doll from liquid nitrogen went

1:17:47

correctly, but then under the hot studio lights,

1:17:49

the model started falling apart.

1:17:53

Did you know that? So... In the following

1:17:55

takes, they had to flash the lighting in a different direction.

1:17:58

Do you have that whole...

1:17:59

Bit about it because there's one

1:18:02

part of it where it talks about the

1:18:03

alien baby's head Literally

1:18:06

exploding off of the

1:18:07

thing across the room and it's oh my god. No

1:18:10

very funny

1:18:12

Will put there's so much like

1:18:14

production Information about this

1:18:17

finale and it is really delightful

1:18:19

from the top to the bottom. So we'll

1:18:21

link to this like production

1:18:25

Document that you know, you could Google it also But

1:18:27

we'll put it in the links for you to find easy

1:18:29

more easily But I love

1:18:31

that and they had another one. Don't worry. There was two there

1:18:34

are two baby fetus aliens And

1:18:37

so when when one shattered

1:18:39

they they had a backup This

1:18:43

is and I cannot I know I already talked about it But

1:18:46

I cannot explain to you how little I expected

1:18:48

this moment I was I if

1:18:51

I was on a less stable surface, I would have fallen

1:18:53

off I was luckily really wedged

1:18:55

in my couch. So I didn't fall but I was like

1:18:58

I

1:18:59

Just thought it was gonna be tissue,

1:19:01

you know, like the whole time they were like, it's the

1:19:03

original tissue sample tissue

1:19:06

tissue So I thought it was gonna be like a little

1:19:08

sciency piece of nondescript thing

1:19:11

Yeah,

1:19:13

but no I

1:19:14

Love it.

1:19:16

I fucking love it

1:19:19

They sell the please that you're pleased so they

1:19:21

sell these can I have a tiny alien

1:19:24

baby fetus in my office Paperweight,

1:19:27

you know

1:19:27

must sell them right? Yes.

1:19:30

Yeah, I'm sure we can I'm sure we could

1:19:32

track one of these down

1:19:33

Cover Buffy

1:19:35

get a green mug cover the X files

1:19:37

get an alien fetus perfect,

1:19:40

um Okay, I already said this but

1:19:42

my first note when they get to the bridge is we

1:19:44

love to see Scully with an alien In a box

1:19:46

under her arm. We simply love to see it

1:19:53

She's there waiting for deep throat

1:19:55

and she wants to make these change

1:19:57

because she says I don't

1:19:59

trust you deep throat but then she also

1:20:02

says not out loud and I will am

1:20:04

in love with lox maulter

1:20:06

yeah and and deep throat is like

1:20:08

in 1987 a group of southern kids were injected

1:20:10

with clone DNA from a baby

1:20:12

alien when they thought they were getting a vaccine

1:20:15

that's the kind of people that

1:20:17

you're dealing with as

1:20:20

a child why

1:20:24

people think

1:20:25

something

1:20:28

also as a child who was seven

1:20:30

years old in 1987 I have to say

1:20:33

was it me well

1:20:35

maybe do you feel inhumanly strong Kristen

1:20:37

always

1:20:42

crew cut man rolls up

1:20:43

makes very meaningful eye contact with scully

1:20:46

leaving me to wonder with what what

1:20:48

is about to transpire why leave scully

1:20:50

alive while we've molder alive why

1:20:53

are mother and scully alive I don't

1:20:55

like they're too hot I can't kill them

1:20:58

people are enjoying this

1:20:59

show to let it go on one more season

1:21:02

they stop by deep throat

1:21:05

the the crew cut man van stop

1:21:07

by the throat and as crew cut man

1:21:10

is

1:21:11

making the trade slash

1:21:12

killing deep throat shooting

1:21:15

him dead Mulder is unceremoniously

1:21:18

hucked out of the bank of the van yeah

1:21:21

and okay so

1:21:24

deep throat getting shot

1:21:26

did not expect it did not believe

1:21:28

it actually like I

1:21:31

I just really felt like in future

1:21:35

seasons we would see more

1:21:37

deep throat and again

1:21:39

I don't know because I haven't seen it but

1:21:41

based on

1:21:43

general vibes it feels like deep

1:21:45

throat is actually dead so that's

1:21:49

sad if true and

1:21:51

I also think that

1:21:54

this exchange that deep throat and scully

1:21:56

have before he gets shot feels important

1:21:59

Uh, cause he tells

1:22:02

her about the kids who were, you know, inoculated

1:22:04

with like alien DNA or whatever. Um,

1:22:07

and then says that they have to save

1:22:09

Mulder's life. And she says at the

1:22:12

expense of so many others, because when I was

1:22:14

first watching this episode, I was like, Mulder

1:22:16

is going to be so fucking mad if

1:22:19

Scully saves his life by like giving

1:22:21

up the thing that he's always been after. Right?

1:22:23

Like this fucking alien baby,

1:22:26

Mulder wants more than his own life.

1:22:28

Like clearly.

1:22:29

Um,

1:22:31

but then I also thought like, okay, so yeah, like

1:22:33

why, why are we,

1:22:36

if this is the thing, it's in the box,

1:22:38

we have the thing. It's right here. Why

1:22:40

are we giving it away to get Mulder

1:22:43

back? And deep throat says,

1:22:45

because this is the tip of the iceberg, you

1:22:48

and Mulder are the only ones

1:22:51

who can bring it to light.

1:22:53

Why?

1:22:55

No idea. Okay. Categorically

1:22:58

untrue. Okay, cool. I

1:23:01

just, I just found something out. Jerry

1:23:04

Harden, who plays deep throat, has

1:23:07

a daughter who is an actor.

1:23:11

Who I know you've seen in a variety of things.

1:23:14

Chrissy.

1:23:15

Melora Harden, Jan

1:23:18

from the office. She's a trans

1:23:20

parent. She's a bold type.

1:23:23

Of course. She's a fucking badass.

1:23:26

I love her.

1:23:28

I've seen her in all of those things, which I can

1:23:30

very rarely say about anyone.

1:23:32

Oh my God. She's in the hot

1:23:35

chick.

1:23:36

Oh, I haven't seen that.

1:23:37

Wow. That's

1:23:39

her dad.

1:23:41

Can you believe it? Oh, that's so cool.

1:23:45

Yeah.

1:23:47

Um,

1:23:49

so when deep throat is shot, Scully

1:23:51

runs and she notably runs

1:23:54

to Mulder first. And once she knows

1:23:56

that Mulder is alive, then she goes over

1:23:58

to deep

1:23:59

throat. This is when.

1:23:59

of course he says.

1:24:01

What does he say, Jenny?

1:24:03

Trust!

1:24:05

Trust!

1:24:07

No one

1:24:10

does.

1:24:11

Um, this is a gorgeous

1:24:14

shot, I think. It's really, sorry,

1:24:16

it's really giving Sid the ventriloquist

1:24:19

dummy from Buffy the Vampire

1:24:22

Slayer. Okay,

1:24:22

I don't mean the shot where he says

1:24:25

those lines, but the shot right after

1:24:27

that where it like pans up from the bridge

1:24:30

and Mulder is sort of like in the dark and

1:24:32

then Scully and Deep Throat

1:24:33

are like lit by a street lamp or what

1:24:35

have you. It's

1:24:36

really beautiful. Yeah, yeah. I'm

1:24:39

like, hmm, I also think

1:24:41

like

1:24:43

sad to lose Deep

1:24:43

Throat if this is really the truth of the matter,

1:24:46

which it seems it is. Um,

1:24:47

but I also kind of love, like

1:24:50

Deep Throat was always an ambiguous character.

1:24:52

We didn't know from the moment we met him if he was

1:24:55

really helping Mulder, if he was playing around

1:24:57

with Mulder, what his intentions were. We had

1:25:00

very compelling moments from him where he said,

1:25:02

you know, explained how he had to kill an

1:25:05

alien one time and that he'll never forget the look

1:25:07

in that alien's eyes of confusion

1:25:10

and like just like really fucking

1:25:12

complicated shit in this character. And so

1:25:14

I love that

1:25:17

the end of this episode was Scully essentially

1:25:20

having to trust Deep Throat because he said

1:25:22

that she had no one else to trust. And then his

1:25:24

last words before dying

1:25:27

were to trust no one, which, you

1:25:29

know, could of course mean trust no one because

1:25:31

look, they just fucking killed me,

1:25:33

but it could also mean you shouldn't

1:25:35

have trusted me. Like we, we don't

1:25:37

know and we

1:25:38

can't know. And my god,

1:25:41

I just think that's very cool and very good

1:25:44

writing. Um, and I like

1:25:46

it and I hope for more of it.

1:25:52

What

1:25:52

a show. So glad we're talking about this show.

1:25:54

You know? Yeah.

1:25:59

Well. 13 days later, it's

1:26:02

just a specific amount of days.

1:26:06

Phone rings, but Scully was already awake

1:26:09

because she and Mulder,

1:26:11

similar to

1:26:12

twins in the womb, can

1:26:14

sometimes communicate with each other. That's

1:26:17

a reference to an episode we didn't

1:26:18

cover. Hey,

1:26:20

Scully! Oh, God. It's me. Um,

1:26:25

this is... Jenny, do you want to talk about the

1:26:28

promo for this episode that you sent to me right

1:26:30

now? Because it was really something and

1:26:32

I think we're gonna put it up on our socials. Yeah,

1:26:37

let me grab that really quick. The

1:26:39

top of the image says, explosive

1:26:41

season finale. Okay. Then

1:26:44

there's a big file and

1:26:48

the tab on the file says the X-Files

1:26:50

and there's a photo of Mulder and a

1:26:52

photo of Scully and they're

1:26:55

paper clipped onto the outside of the file. They've been

1:26:57

stamped and they say, terminate!

1:27:00

Across their pretty little faces. And then

1:27:02

the copy is, of all the mysteries

1:27:04

in the X-Files, there is one so deadly

1:27:06

and

1:27:07

frightening the government will do

1:27:08

anything to keep it a secret.

1:27:10

Even kill their own. Footage not found.

1:27:13

Like, really? They were not terminated.

1:27:16

Nobody even tried. You trust

1:27:18

no one, including the people who

1:27:21

advertise for television shows, you

1:27:22

know what I mean? Yes,

1:27:25

correct. Correct.

1:27:28

What,

1:27:28

of course, they meant was not that

1:27:30

Scully and Mulder were going to get killed,

1:27:33

which they do not, but that

1:27:35

they were going to shut down the X-Files.

1:27:38

And that's why Fox Mulder has

1:27:40

called Dana Scully in this last scene.

1:27:42

They're shutting us down. They called me in

1:27:44

tonight. They're going to reassign

1:27:47

a Skinner.

1:27:49

Pellegy himself

1:27:50

told Mulder

1:27:53

he's fucking out of here. I

1:27:56

don't like it. I

1:27:58

don't like it either. Honestly, Scully likes it.

1:27:59

at least of all she's like well

1:28:02

you had to go to the side and started

1:28:04

to like this yeah I just found my first

1:28:07

alien baby what do you mean oh my first

1:28:10

alien baby

1:28:14

she says what are you gonna do and

1:28:17

he says I'm not gonna give up I can't give

1:28:19

up not as well now here's the thing

1:28:21

he says not as long as the truth is out there

1:28:24

click and what I really want from from

1:28:26

Mulder is for him to say I'm not

1:28:28

gonna give up I can't

1:28:29

give up not as long as the truth is out there what

1:28:32

are you gonna do

1:28:34

but he hangs up he doesn't even ask her she

1:28:36

just wanted to tell him he's like bye

1:28:39

Shelly an alien baby

1:28:41

she's gonna help him no matter what no matter

1:28:43

what

1:28:45

we'll get to my crystal ball don't worry

1:28:50

did you notice what

1:28:52

time Mulder called Scully

1:28:54

I think I did actually 12 11 22 p.m. Scully

1:28:56

had been asleep for two and

1:29:02

a half hours already

1:29:04

yes

1:29:07

and

1:29:09

do you remember a previous time when

1:29:11

Mulder called Scully

1:29:14

was it at the end of the pilot at that at that hour

1:29:16

was it at the end of the pilot episode of this

1:29:20

season that's right it was in

1:29:22

the pilot you know what else

1:29:24

happened in the pilot what else happened in the pilot

1:29:26

Jenny the man

1:29:29

we've come to lovingly refer to as the cigarette

1:29:31

smoking man filed something

1:29:33

away in the everyone

1:29:36

at the Pentagon our hoarders storage

1:29:39

unit Pentagon

1:29:42

easy storage facility oh my

1:29:45

god but this time he's he files away a

1:29:47

little alien baby in a jar in

1:29:49

the alien baby in a jar section

1:29:51

yeah it's right next to the nose

1:29:53

plugs

1:29:54

aliens put in your nose section

1:29:59

But I love this. I mean, I really do

1:30:02

like we're laughing but I love the like

1:30:04

overlap of pilot

1:30:06

and finale. I think that's very

1:30:08

nice. And, oh, for

1:30:10

sure. Yeah, that's, this is great.

1:30:13

This is great.

1:30:14

To Latoya and it's you know we've

1:30:16

all been on a ride right and Latoya

1:30:18

and I have had some similar experiences with

1:30:20

season one we've both never seen it before and

1:30:24

Latoya's last production note

1:30:27

was honestly,

1:30:28

this finale made me immediately want

1:30:31

to start up season two,

1:30:32

just after I finished up my notes for this

1:30:35

season and I am very much

1:30:37

with you Latoya. I am feeling

1:30:39

I love this.

1:30:41

Yeah, I'm fucking ready. Let's go.

1:30:44

Let's go. Season two, show me

1:30:46

some aliens. Notably, this was not

1:30:49

an hot alien with tits. This was a baby alien. We

1:30:52

still have the whole other season to find

1:30:54

Latoya her

1:30:55

hot alien with tits. So, my God.

1:31:02

What

1:31:05

a world. What a time to be alive. I'm

1:31:07

so

1:31:08

pleased. Yeah,

1:31:10

me too. How do you feel? I feel

1:31:13

excited. Powerful, exciting. I feel

1:31:15

powerful. I feel very proud of myself that I can say

1:31:17

I've seen a whole season of The X-Files, but

1:31:20

I feel very excited

1:31:22

because I've been and I mean, you know,

1:31:24

maybe I will feel differently when we cartwheel

1:31:27

over into season two next season, but I've been wanting

1:31:29

to be a part of this.

1:31:30

I'm wanting to feel more

1:31:32

excited

1:31:33

in a lot of these episodes of season

1:31:36

one. And yeah, I

1:31:38

feel like perhaps we're going to get there. I'm gonna

1:31:41

tell you some of the things that I think might

1:31:45

happen in season two once we get to my crystal ball.

1:31:47

I'll save some of my excited,

1:31:49

specific feelings for there.

1:31:52

Sure, sure, sure, sure. But

1:31:54

speaking of excited feelings.

1:31:59

dare we turn our

1:32:02

eyes from

1:32:05

between the slats of our spread

1:32:08

fingers covering them

1:32:10

performatively toward

1:32:13

the sexual attention awards

1:32:15

welcome back

1:32:19

to the

1:32:24

final

1:32:27

installment of the sexual attention Awards

1:32:30

for season one unless we

1:32:32

are

1:32:33

forced let's be crackling chemistry

1:32:35

between me Kristen and Latoya during

1:32:38

the recording of the wrap-up episode

1:32:41

for season one is so intense that we

1:32:43

have no choice but to nominate every

1:32:45

combination of the three of us again something

1:32:47

to aim for you know

1:32:52

oh boy in slot number one

1:32:55

cast a vote for daddy issues

1:32:57

cast a vote

1:32:59

for you know the collective consciousness

1:33:03

he just wanted

1:33:05

to make him proud

1:33:07

and stuff and it's none of our business

1:33:09

it's Mulder and Deep Throat

1:33:12

perhaps they've become too dependent

1:33:14

on each other in slot

1:33:17

number two beautiful friends

1:33:20

may I submit the people's

1:33:21

choice

1:33:22

doctors Dana Scully

1:33:25

and Ann Carpenter paging

1:33:28

doctors Scully and

1:33:30

Carpenter where could they have gone

1:33:32

your freeze fracture is ready doctors

1:33:35

doctors where are you

1:33:39

it's not Colonel

1:33:42

mustard with the peppercorn

1:33:44

grinder in the shed or whatever anymore

1:33:48

your grandmother's sexual

1:33:51

tension award no

1:33:52

it's dr. carpenter and dr. Scully

1:33:55

in the hospital closet with

1:33:58

none of our business

1:34:01

In

1:34:05

the third slot,

1:34:08

many senses go into

1:34:11

a,

1:34:12

forgive me for saying

1:34:14

so,

1:34:14

sexual experience. Gross.

1:34:18

Uh,

1:34:21

but, uh,

1:34:22

arguably, could it be said

1:34:25

that, you know, one of the sort

1:34:27

of most

1:34:29

important or the first thing maybe that you think

1:34:32

of, uh, sense-wise when it comes

1:34:34

to a sexual

1:34:35

encounter,

1:34:37

would be touch? If so,

1:34:40

check yes on slot three for

1:34:42

Mulder and bare-handing evidence,

1:34:45

left, right, willy and

1:34:47

nilly. He can't be contained. And

1:34:49

in slot number four,

1:34:52

oh my goodness,

1:34:54

they've really, they've

1:34:55

really got it. She doesn't have the opportunity to

1:35:00

put her, take her jacket off and put it on him

1:35:02

when he has been hucked out of

1:35:04

the van, but they do make significant

1:35:07

eye contact and she does, uh, believe

1:35:10

it seems, and she also apologizes

1:35:12

to him unnecessarily, but still, uh,

1:35:15

feels like a real

1:35:17

flawless victory for

1:35:19

Mulder and Scully, the

1:35:21

mothership. The mothership. I

1:35:23

think that the more Scully believes in

1:35:25

aliens, the more Scully believes

1:35:27

she wants to kiss Mulder, you know, I think it's a

1:35:30

math equals math

1:35:31

there. Yep, yep, yep, yep.

1:35:34

I want to believe I kiss

1:35:36

Mooch. Okay.

1:35:40

Now, Kristen.

1:35:42

Do you have

1:35:45

the titular amethyst sphere

1:35:48

on hand? Oh, I've

1:35:50

got

1:35:50

the titular sphere. Let's fucking go. Okay.

1:35:53

It is time, one last time,

1:35:56

for a season one installment of

1:35:58

Kristen's Crystal.

1:35:59

ball. She

1:36:06

can see it's dark. What's

1:36:09

catching you

1:36:11

in the fight? I'm

1:36:14

sure she'll get it.

1:36:18

Kristen and Chris,

1:36:21

the ball.

1:36:22

What are you thinking?

1:36:24

I already declared this,

1:36:26

but my crystal ball and I are convinced

1:36:29

Mulder's bed is his couch. This is now a fact.

1:36:31

I already said that, but I want it to be in his proper

1:36:33

segment. Okay.

1:36:35

Scully and

1:36:38

Mulder will not kiss in

1:36:40

season two, but they

1:36:42

will get knocked unconscious and wake

1:36:45

up in a compromising position.

1:36:51

Mulder will be wearing sweatpants

1:36:54

for the first three episodes of season

1:36:56

two. Perhaps he will even have

1:36:59

some stubble

1:37:00

because they're off

1:37:03

the job.

1:37:04

Well, he is.

1:37:07

Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Okay.

1:37:11

Scully will bring by some food for

1:37:13

Mulder and find out that

1:37:15

in his depression and stubble and

1:37:18

sweatpants, Mulder has actually started

1:37:20

feeding a stray cat by leaving

1:37:22

food out for it every night.

1:37:29

Scully will have a horrible

1:37:31

partner in her

1:37:32

new reassignment at the FBI.

1:37:35

We will

1:37:35

hate him, but

1:37:37

they might accidentally kiss

1:37:40

one time just so

1:37:42

we can see how angry Mulder

1:37:44

gets. Mulder, in fact, will bitch

1:37:47

to his stray cat about it.

1:37:50

Okay, okay. Okay,

1:37:53

okay. Just two more points. One,

1:37:58

we will meet one of the children who was murdered. injected

1:38:00

with alien DNA in season

1:38:02

two

1:38:04

and some... Okay, okay. Finally,

1:38:06

last but not least, someone

1:38:08

gay will be in the second season. A

1:38:10

gay character will be on the second

1:38:13

season. It may only appear one time,

1:38:15

but a true bonafide

1:38:18

gay will be in season two of

1:38:20

the exercise.

1:38:24

If a character, like if

1:38:26

Mulder and Scully or Mulder or Scully

1:38:29

are investigating a murder of

1:38:31

someone who is revealed to be gay, but

1:38:33

they have no screen time as an alive

1:38:36

character, does that count? No, that

1:38:38

fucking doesn't count. Now mad. I

1:38:40

mean, I know it doesn't count, but I'm just... I know,

1:38:41

I know, I know, I know. It's for clarity. No,

1:38:43

it doesn't count. Ugh.

1:38:46

Okay. Beautiful.

1:38:49

Also, one quick question

1:38:51

from our listener, Angus. Wanting

1:38:54

to know how many more smug

1:38:57

bitches do I predict, do me

1:38:59

and my crystal ball predict will appear in the show?

1:39:02

Will any of them be called Elizabeth? Okay,

1:39:05

we've got how many seasons of this show?

1:39:07

There's nine, but everybody doesn't

1:39:10

like one of them. There's eight, or there's nine, and then

1:39:12

there's ten. Okay, so there's nine. Eleven.

1:39:14

Okay. I think there's nine proper,

1:39:16

and then two reboots.

1:39:18

All right, I'm going to go with seven more

1:39:20

smug bitches. When we mean

1:39:23

that a smug bitch is an eight-year-old girl

1:39:25

who can use

1:39:26

power to mess

1:39:29

you up,

1:39:30

and all... Seven more eight-year-old

1:39:33

girls who use

1:39:35

a power to mess you up. You

1:39:38

mess you up. And probably

1:39:41

I will call people a smug bitch at least 22

1:39:43

more times in the series, so they will span.

1:39:46

I mean, deep throat, smug bitch.

1:39:48

So it goes past

1:39:50

just the original smug bitches of the world.

1:39:53

And yes, one of them will be called Elizabeth.

1:39:59

Okay. Great. Okay, perfect.

1:40:02

We did it. Fuck, Jenny!

1:40:05

What the fuck is the status

1:40:07

of this X-File?

1:40:10

I would say that the status of this

1:40:13

X-File is too

1:40:15

dependent on me and my

1:40:18

willingness to play its game.

1:40:25

Alright, Jenny, well, for the last time

1:40:27

in Season 1, you should probably tell

1:40:30

everyone who the hell you are.

1:40:33

Here we go.

1:40:35

Beautiful friends,

1:40:38

my name is Jenny Owen Youngs and

1:40:41

when

1:40:42

I'm not watching the X-Files or Buffy

1:40:44

the Vampire Slayer, I'm usually

1:40:46

making music.

1:40:49

I don't mean to brag, but I just announced

1:40:52

my annual holiday stream, Tidings

1:40:55

of Comfort and J-O-Y. It

1:40:57

will be occurring this year on December 14th.

1:41:00

You can get tickets and find

1:41:03

out more info by visiting my website, JennyOwenYoungs.com

1:41:06

or finding my various posts about

1:41:08

it across socials, at

1:41:10

JennyOwenYoungs. You can also

1:41:13

say hi

1:41:14

to me on those socials, give me a little follow,

1:41:17

you know, come be a

1:41:19

pal.

1:41:20

I encourage you to show up,

1:41:22

show up to feel festive, show

1:41:25

up to enjoy Jenny's music and show up

1:41:27

to remind Jenny that she is the same age

1:41:30

as me, Kristen Russo, on December

1:41:32

14th

1:41:33

for Comfort and Tidings and J-O-Y.

1:41:36

That is annoying, but

1:41:39

whatever gets you there. My

1:41:42

name is Kristen Russo and

1:41:44

when I'm not watching the X-Files or Buffy,

1:41:46

I am usually working with and for

1:41:49

LGBTQ communities. You can learn

1:41:51

more about my work at

1:41:52

KristenNoleen.com. This

1:41:54

year,

1:41:54

I also did some

1:41:56

fun stuff with my patrons.

1:41:59

was watching some queer horror films together.

1:42:02

And it was so much fun, in fact, that we will

1:42:05

be picking 12 more horror

1:42:07

films. And this time it's a list curated

1:42:09

by us specifically

1:42:13

for 2024. So we'll be rolling out that list

1:42:15

of queer horror choices. And you can find

1:42:18

all that information out on my Patreon, patreon.com

1:42:20

slash Kristen Noleen. Oh, Kristen

1:42:23

Noleen, did you want to know how to spell that? That's my first

1:42:25

name and my middle name. And Jenny

1:42:28

wrote a jingle to help you out.

1:42:42

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1:42:49

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1:42:52

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1:42:56

Now's the time to do it too, because you can

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