0:00

Why would I make them so uncomfortable? It

0:02

probably has to do with your reputation.

0:05

They fill your methods, your theories, sir?

0:08

Spooky.

0:10

Do you think I'm spooky? His

0:13

face is so blank and expression

0:16

You didn't even the same humans.

0:18

I'm not turning my back on anyone. Have

0:20

ever found a mental implant in your body?

0:23

you check everywhere. Mulder, you have to

0:26

understand. Put it down. Put

0:28

it down, buddy. Boulder.

0:30

Boulder. Mulder. Moldor Moldor.

0:34

We're gonna we're gonna miss you, buddy.

0:36

You're kind of what this show

0:39

is about. Yeah. weird

0:41

that they tried to do it without you.

0:43

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have been for, I don't know, ten years

1:31

now -- At least a hundred and fifty. -- a hundred and

1:33

fifty years -- Yeah. -- since the American Civil War.

1:36

Yeah. We have been watching every episode

1:38

of the X Files. Every single one, we haven't

1:41

missed a single one. Take that

1:43

X Files files. Yeah. Take

1:45

it right in wherever. I don't know.

1:47

Face. Take it on the face. We've

1:49

been listening to every listening.

1:51

We've been listening and looking at every single

1:54

episode. AND TALKING ABOUT HOW

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FOX Mulder PERHAPS SHOULDN'T BE

1:58

IN THE FBI AND IS FACT

2:00

A Maniac AND SHOULD BE IN JAIL PROMBLY

2:03

because he's done a lot of fucked up

2:05

stuff. Yeah. He definitely shouldn't be around

2:07

people. Yep. It's

2:10

alarming that he's walking among us and polite

2:13

society. Yep. He should be

2:15

identified and trapped at once.

2:17

Yep. And we

2:19

we've had an interesting moment here. Yeah.

2:22

Because for until

2:24

the next until now to the end of

2:26

the year, we will be

2:28

covering a three parter specifically

2:32

season seven episode twenty two,

2:35

Requiem, which is part one of the three

2:37

parter that'll bring into season eight. And

2:39

if you know anything about x files, you

2:41

know that David DeCompany left

2:43

for season eight. He sure did. So

2:46

until from now until the end of the year, we

2:48

will be closing the book on

2:50

Mulder for one season. Yeah.

2:52

Just for a season. Just for a season.

2:55

And the question, of course, is what are we gonna

2:57

do after that? And the answer is

2:59

we'll figure it out. Yeah. We don't know yet,

3:01

but we'll figure it out. Yeah. because he

3:03

comes back from season nine, ten, and

3:06

eleven. Mind you. So there's plenty

3:08

more show to cover, and he

3:10

does show up in season eight. Yes,

3:13

he does. In fact, he will show

3:15

up in the next episode we cover. Mhmm.

3:17

Within, I believe, it's called, But

3:19

right now, we're on, again, season

3:21

seven episode twenty two Requiem, The

3:23

Season finale, and the

3:26

the great abduction of Mulder

3:30

to great fans there. Yeah.

3:33

Oh, yeah. real brassy rendition

3:35

of the theme as he gets sanded

3:37

up into that UFO. Yeah.

3:39

I can't wait to talk about it. It's

3:43

everything he's always wanted to. Yeah.

3:46

It really He's up there punching the

3:48

fuck out of that's alias. Just

3:51

written from room to room. Clock and

3:53

aliens right in their big eyes. Yep.

3:56

I didn't look into the behind the scenes of this

3:59

because I forgot. That's you

4:01

know, let's look it up

4:03

now. Yeah. I mean,

4:05

we know we know the idea that,

4:07

like, They all through season

4:10

they thought, this is it. Yes. This is

4:12

the end. I think

4:14

David DeCognomy had been

4:17

trying to renegotiate or just simply

4:19

didn't want to do it anymore so

4:21

they had to find a way to get him out

4:24

and so this is what they did the

4:28

There's we start seeing

4:31

some romantic stuff,

4:33

which we'll talk about. I really wanna talk

4:35

about It also ends

4:37

with Scaly revealing that she's pregnant

4:40

pregnant with the implication

4:42

being that it is that is the

4:44

father of the child? Well, they later

4:46

try to make it a Jesus baby. And

4:48

spoilers, it is revealed that Mulder

4:51

is the father. Mhmm. And I

4:53

wanna talk about that later.

4:56

Yeah.

4:57

I'm actually I'm looking at behind the scenes.

4:59

They they

5:02

this it's interesting is that they

5:04

did not I was curious about this.

5:06

They did not shoot this because the whole

5:08

thing is they go back to the pilot. they

5:10

go back to Oregon with what's

5:12

his Gamefully? Yeah. If

5:14

you remember the pilot of the X Files, it's

5:18

small town and the kids are being abducted. And

5:20

they go back to the point that they hit they

5:22

find the x that Mulder put

5:24

in the road. in the first

5:26

episode -- Yep. -- which is great.

5:28

Yeah. Where's their car shut off?

5:31

Yeah. They did not film this back in

5:33

the same place, but that's okay. This

5:36

has a really cool digital effect, the

5:38

the abduction effect, the alien

5:40

force field. Mhmm.

5:42

That freaked me out. Did that freak you out?

5:44

Yeah. You know,

5:46

it's a it's a little dated

5:48

now because it's such like, the rapid movement

5:50

is such like a possession movie trope,

5:53

but it's still like unnerving. they do it

5:55

well in the show. They do it better in the show than they do

5:57

it in any of those possession movies. Yeah. When

5:59

it happened to Sculley, that made me go, oh,

6:01

yeah. Like, I did I just did did not expect

6:03

it to happen to her. Yeah. Yeah.

6:05

Yeah.

6:06

Yeah.

6:07

So after the conclusion of the episode, David The

6:10

Company expressed his desire to leave the

6:12

series saying I was kind of a

6:14

free agent after season seven. And to

6:16

me, there was not much else to do in terms

6:18

of the character. So it was really

6:20

about me wanting to pursue other parts of my career as

6:22

a writer, director, and actor. How

6:24

did that work out? Let's

6:26

see. It didn't.

6:29

Yep. They also the

6:32

Maniac fans apparently thought that skinner would

6:34

be the molder. And

6:37

that would have been a neat idea honestly.

6:40

It would have made more it honestly would have made

6:42

more sense and maybe the show could have

6:44

gone on with that because if they

6:46

had done skinner instead of introducing

6:48

a new character and just had to be skinner and

6:50

sculily, at least skinner is a character

6:52

that fans new and like --

6:54

Yes. -- had an established backstory and

6:56

an and an established rapport. Although

6:58

his rapport with Sculley is not

7:00

very I feel like they're

7:02

both too maybe they're

7:04

too similar. Maybe that was the issue.

7:07

Yeah. I think what it comes down

7:09

to is, like, you just you

7:11

can't do it without Moldor or Sculley,

7:13

period? Yeah. Fans will revolt.

7:15

And I will say to their credit, you haven't

7:18

watched it yet, but the next episode? dogget

7:20

is introduced like an asshole. Like,

7:22

they they they're actually like, yeah, you

7:24

hate them. Like, that's kind of the

7:26

point. And that's actually a

7:28

smart beginning to dog it.

7:30

Like, they didn't they didn't bring them on and go, like,

7:32

look at it. I'm just like Boulder. You'll love me.

7:34

Like, they make them a prick. and they

7:36

make Sculley say fuck you to him. And

7:38

I think that was actually a good idea

7:41

because fans are right there with

7:43

her. Yeah. And I think it's smart that,

7:45

like, as that as season eight goes on,

7:47

dog, it is not just Mulder two

7:49

point o. He's completely different characters

7:51

than Moldor. He's more Yeah. He's almost more

7:53

like Sculley two point o. Mhmm. But

7:56

we'll get into that. So,

7:59

yeah, they

7:59

they they

8:02

they bring it back. They bring it back to the start.

8:05

They also bring back Alex

8:07

Crycheck armless in some

8:09

fucking prison getting the shit kicked

8:11

out of him. If it

8:14

comes like a shit where he even was.

8:16

I don't know. It becomes like a weird, like, fucking

8:18

crossover. It's like a marvel. It's

8:20

like the Avengers of X Files. Like,

8:22

by the end when it's like Crycheck, in

8:24

the lone gunman and skinner all

8:26

teaming up. I was like, what the fuck is happening?

8:28

It's well, it's what you were saying. They

8:30

thought this was gonna be for a time, this was gonna

8:32

be the last episode. Okay. So

8:35

at this point, they obviously knew there was gonna

8:37

be another season -- Mhmm. -- because this is a to

8:39

be continued. But, like, I

8:41

think they thought we're never gonna get moldy. We're never

8:44

gonna have moldy. This is Yeah. Closing the book.

8:46

Mhmm. And I think they thought they were gonna

8:48

reboot the series after this. Right?

8:50

Mhmm. that's that's what

8:52

I what I've read and sort of what

8:54

you can kind of feel in this

8:56

episode like they it because it is

8:58

really like that scene where

9:00

it's just the shot of the lone

9:02

gunman and skinner and

9:04

Mulder cray check and fucking

9:07

Marita co Covarrubias. Yeah.

9:09

I thought I think they thought that by getting

9:11

rid of moldur, there also we're we're gonna

9:13

see a lot of these characters again. Right.

9:16

Yeah. I think

9:16

they wanted to lean on Crycheck because he

9:19

was a fan favorite too. Mhmm. So they knew they

9:21

had to bring him back. Yeah. I think

9:23

they did think the cigarette smoking man would

9:25

die here. But

9:26

obviously, they made it they left

9:28

it a little open. I left it open. Yeah.

9:30

Because let me tell you,

9:32

nothing could kill this is

9:35

in destruct people. He gets

9:37

he gets definitively killed,

9:39

I think, four times. Yeah.

9:41

Well, in Swoilers, in the And

9:43

the series finale, the first series finale.

9:45

Mhmm. You see his skull.

9:48

The flesh can serve the last

9:50

it off of his body so that it's

9:52

just him naked skull.

9:54

And I love it. I love it. And he

9:56

still comes back. Yep.

9:59

Other

10:00

notable appearances is

10:03

the kitty fuck Stiffler's mom is in

10:05

this. eight k Thomas. Eight k Thomas.

10:07

Yeah. as like dirt bad kids

10:09

hunting radiation in the woods for some

10:11

reason. Listen, man. There's

10:13

just a fourth fire. There is enough thing

10:15

to do in Bumblefuck Oregon. So

10:17

if it sounds like a UFO crashed,

10:19

I would go check that shit out

10:21

too.

10:21

That's true. So,

10:22

yeah, the idea is that this time a UFO

10:24

has crashed in Oregon that

10:26

happened to be in the same woods. We should

10:28

probably get into our first section, which is world's

10:30

luckiest detective. which is

10:32

it's what it sounds like. Moldor

10:34

often doesn't solve a case so much

10:36

is stumbles into the solution.

10:38

Mhmm. Or he'll Or somebody solves it

10:40

for him. Yeah. Or he'll say

10:42

it's werewolves in the first five minutes, and

10:44

we'll be just Right. He's just

10:47

dead. No. Completely right. It'll it'll

10:49

throw out a wild guess based on

10:51

no information. And what do you

10:53

know he's correct? And in this

10:55

case, it's a big reunion with like

10:57

Billy and the the people, but not for

10:59

any, like, reasons.

11:01

Like Billy is the cop now.

11:03

It it was just, you know, because they like

11:05

we were saying, they thought they were closing the book

11:08

on at least a certain iteration of

11:10

the x files. They thought the company was never gonna

11:12

be back. So it's like bookending. It's

11:14

for sure. And it's also

11:16

very lucky. because Billy is like, oh,

11:18

hey, Boulder. Yeah. I'll tell you everything.

11:20

Yeah. The like, people like,

11:22

they they actually call Boulder. Yeah.

11:24

You're right. So it's

11:26

it's lucky it's lucky that the the

11:29

the inciting incident is a a

11:31

navy jet. crashes, collides

11:33

with the UFO in mid air, and they both go

11:35

down. And the UFO crashes, happens

11:37

to crash in the same spot in Oregon as the first

11:39

episode like you said. So that's, like, the

11:41

lucky thing that starts. And then, of

11:43

course, the Billy, the

11:45

teenager that they helped in that first episode

11:48

is now a cop in the town, and he

11:50

knows something is fishy. So he knows

11:52

his old friend, Boulder.

11:53

Yeah. And the girl is the wife of the guy who

11:56

gets abducted. of

11:57

the cop. He's got the other

11:59

teenagers that was getting even a million twenty

12:01

hundred's there. And teenagers just like,

12:03

hey. Even the ABH. Yeah.

12:05

They show up on

12:07

the scene. They immediately see the scorch marks from

12:09

the blood. There's there

12:12

is Like,

12:15

let's see. What did I have here? There there's

12:17

the guy at the crime scene who just, like, shows up

12:19

and says, hey, they took my friend. and

12:21

they like he walks them through it. Wait. He

12:23

doesn't even just be he doesn't even

12:25

say that. He shows up at the crime scene.

12:28

Moldor spots him and then just

12:30

starts chasing. I wanna

12:32

talk about that later. Mulder

12:35

is in peak form. He chases this

12:37

kid down and only then after

12:39

after yeah. Only then does

12:41

the kids say, oh, yeah. My my friend

12:43

Finch from American Pie also got abducted.

12:45

Yep. This came down

12:48

after American Pie. That's

12:51

great. So Oh, that's what I

12:53

wanna say about this episode is this is It's

12:55

more next season, but this is the first

12:57

time it feels like not the

12:59

nineties. Like, it's starting to

13:01

actually feel like Oh,

13:04

really? Yeah. It it's getting,

13:06

like, the way especially again, the

13:08

next episode, it feels more

13:10

like modern TV a little

13:12

bit. And then, of course, there's the

13:14

scene where skinner shows up and it's just

13:16

like, I have Crycheck and a

13:18

bunch of answers, and let's all just help

13:20

you, Yeah. It's

13:22

it's it's pretty They all just get together to help

13:24

mold her. It's pretty lucky that CryCheck

13:27

decides to screw over cancer

13:29

man Yeah. In a in a in

13:31

a way that benefits Mulder? Yeah.

13:34

A lot of people do, like, Billy confronts his

13:36

dad in a way that's very Boulder like

13:38

Like,

13:39

everybody's kinda doing the work for Mulder

13:42

molder is a little sad sack in this and we'll

13:44

get to to that is he's

13:46

open from from pillar to post in this

13:48

episode, Dave. Yeah. What do

13:50

you think craycheek and the lone gunmen

13:52

talked about? I don't know. I what

13:55

Damn. I hope, like, in

13:57

my mind, it is just

13:59

very close to their interactions with only

14:02

way more externally hostile.

14:04

Yeah. Like, Mulder sort of, like, enter entertain

14:07

because, like, fried chicken are pretty similar

14:09

dudes. Yeah. I think.

14:12

So I imagine It's a lot of

14:14

them, like, kinda doing the same stuff they

14:16

do around Moldor where Moldor would, like, sort of,

14:18

like, tease them gently. But, like, in this

14:20

situation. They'd be like, oh, we found this new satellite

14:24

dish that's, like, broadcasting secrets and then

14:26

cry check just being like, I don't give

14:28

a shit. You fucking nerds.

14:31

Whereas, like, listen, I've killed aliens.

14:33

Yeah. Or the the

14:35

alternate is the there's, like, awkward

14:37

silence, learn come and go. So you like DND and

14:39

Project goes, yeah. Kinda. Yeah.

14:41

Kinda a lot in prison. Yeah. It's a little bit.

14:43

Cool. Yeah. Ask you. I'm like, you may make a row. do

14:46

something. play a thief I play a thief

14:48

character. Oh, yeah. That makes sense for you, cried check. That makes

14:50

sense for you. Yeah. You would, cried you

14:52

would. I've killed both aliens and humans with

14:54

my bare hands. Yeah. But,

14:56

yeah, it's it's a lot of pride. He kills

14:58

quote unquote, kills cigarette smoking man

15:01

as well. He sure tries.

15:03

He pushes him, like Gretches

15:05

him, like, he's his grandson trying to get

15:08

insurance money. Yeah. He pushes him down the stairs and

15:10

it's, like, do you need to make it look like

15:12

an accident? Yeah. When a head crash?

15:14

What are you good sunning him? I mean, that's

15:16

that that is a good assassin move not to

15:18

make it look like a murder. But, like -- Sure. -- when

15:20

has cry check ever been a good assassin? Like,

15:23

anytime anytime he is

15:25

trying to kill somebody, he fails.

15:27

Like, he kills people by accident.

15:28

Yeah. He's a terrible assassin. You

15:31

ever to stop hiring him. You ever he

15:33

kills Sculley's sister because he's

15:35

trying to kill Sculley. Right.

15:37

He's the Mulder of assassins. He's

15:40

a real clown show. It's a little

15:42

crazy thing. Yeah.

15:43

yeah Yeah.

15:44

So I do feel like the overall luck, the

15:46

big phenomenal one is what are the odds this

15:48

alien ship crash right over

15:50

this place that happens to be Mulder molder

15:53

town. But then it's

15:55

mostly just people doing Mulder after

15:57

that.

15:57

Yeah. UFO highways. I mean, that's

15:59

a thing in UFO culture. There are certain

16:02

lanes that are they have a

16:04

lot of UFO activities. So that's it's

16:06

fine. But, like, it's the luckiest shit.

16:08

It's like, I love the way. What episode

16:10

was it? Maniac,

16:13

where, like,

16:14

midway through a plane crashes

16:16

that just has, like That has evidence

16:18

that has all been wild. Maybe he didn't. It

16:20

was I think it was the was it the cannibal

16:22

town? What? No. It was the cannibal town. It was something

16:24

like that. It was a small town one. It was one of

16:26

the small type of been cannibal town. Yeah.

16:28

It was it was thing to do with them giving putting

16:31

hormones in the beef anyway. Yeah. But

16:33

yeah, what are the fucking odds? And

16:35

then

16:36

I don't

16:38

know if this is luck, but like

16:40

the the bounty hunter, is that the same alien bounty

16:42

hunter? because he definitely when he molder, he had

16:44

a face of, like, this fucking guy again. Oh, it's

16:46

the same guy. It's still bright. Yeah.

16:49

Yeah. No. I mean, like like, because

16:51

he couldn't look like I need everything.

16:53

I the same alien. I assume

16:55

so.

16:55

Yeah. So what are the fucking

16:57

odds? And then I love that it sort of

16:59

ends with them being like, we're gonna fucking

17:01

abduct this prick Finally. Yeah. We've got it.

17:03

And that's lucky for molder. Mulder,

17:05

like, a meaningful look too, which is

17:07

really fun. Yeah. We're not

17:10

understanding there in the middle of all these it

17:12

soon to be AbbVie's, and then the ABH just strolls up

17:14

to him and gives him kinda like this slide

17:16

smile. Like like they're meeting up

17:18

at Buffalo Wild Wings or something.

17:21

Yeah. Yeah.

17:21

I gotta talk about that. We should

17:24

you wanna get in the next section that I don't

17:26

have too much more. No. I mean, the entire

17:28

the beginning to end, the episode's luckiest

17:31

shit. So Let's

17:31

just get into the next section. Folks. Dim

17:34

those lights. Do

17:37

go down into your basement

17:39

office and start dribbling about basketball

17:41

alone. Yeah. Waiting to get yelled at

17:43

by your father, boss, because

17:46

it's time for mother

17:48

after dark. It was a weird

17:50

one. Oh,

17:54

yeah. Nice weird.

17:57

Soak Weird Sachs. Sachs. Yeah.

17:59

Yeah. So that's so many northwest

18:02

Saxophone. Yeah. A deciduous.

18:05

Forest Saxophone. Is

18:07

that right? Yeah. Why

18:10

not? Anyway The

18:12

first question, Tom? Yes.

18:14

Did Boulder assault an FBI auditor? Yes.

18:16

I believe he had buttered him. Yeah. Make

18:19

the implications he had buttered that guy.

18:22

So that's what? So the beginning

18:24

of this episode is basically a

18:26

guy who's seen who's listened to

18:28

our podcast. Yes. They are

18:30

under a financial evaluation by an

18:33

auditor who sits down with mold or knees

18:35

Mulder, you've cost us a lot

18:38

of money What exactly are you doing?

18:41

And and he even says, quote,

18:43

so many of the cases you investigate are

18:45

left unexplained. makes

18:47

it hard to justify the expense. Yep.

18:49

He's at

18:49

the scully, I believe. And she

18:51

replies, we open doors with the x

18:54

files that lead to other doors. like,

18:56

man, scully. Don't even try to defend

18:58

you. You have been drinking the kool Aid for

19:00

too long. Yeah. Yeah. It's it is

19:02

funny that the episode opens with two

19:04

different scenes just basically making every

19:07

observation you and I abate. Yeah.

19:09

It's just a very serious man

19:11

sitting down with them and being it

19:13

says here that you think we're gonna become alien slaves.

19:15

Is that right? You have spent

19:17

five hundred thousand dollars

19:20

to fly out to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and run a

19:22

boat which you then sunk. Yeah.

19:24

And you explained

19:25

the sinking on the

19:28

Bermuda Triangle and

19:30

time traveling to a Nazi

19:31

ship. Yep. And then he brings up a very

19:34

valid point where he says, what you do is

19:36

basically information gathering. and

19:38

Mother's like new, it's not. And it's like it. But

19:40

Mother, as we've talked about many times

19:42

in this show, this is a running theme,

19:44

Mother never solves the crime or

19:46

really changes the course of what

19:48

happens, they do just kind of

19:50

observe it. So this is most of

19:52

the time gathering. Yeah.

19:54

What they do is, essentially, they come home

19:56

and say, we saw a werewolf kill a guy, and they're

19:58

like, oh, did you help? And they're like, nah, he

20:00

he punched me in the face, and I was knocked

20:02

out so close to it. Did you get to that? Did

20:05

you did you catch the werewolf? No. No. I

20:07

got shot. Oh, you shot the werewolf? No. I

20:09

didn't shoot the werewolf, the Sheriff did. Yeah.

20:11

Okay. So what did you do? I

20:13

saw

20:13

it and I saw the werewolf. Yeah. And so

20:15

I'm gonna write down my side. Did you did

20:17

you take a picture of it? No. But I I'm an English

20:19

major so I can really make a good

20:21

picture come alive. I'm gonna write

20:23

a series of poems. With my prose.

20:26

Yeah.

20:26

k.

20:27

And you cost us how much?

20:29

Two

20:30

hundred thousand dollars. It's

20:34

it's it's it is that. It's exactly

20:36

that most epic. So this guy points

20:39

out like, you don't really do anything. Do you? You

20:41

just gather information and cost

20:43

us money. He did

20:45

arrest a a fucking fluke man

20:47

one time. at one time. And then the

20:49

Flukeman got away and he killed

20:51

it. He crushed in the sewer and didn't

20:53

take its body. he

20:55

didn't bring its body back. No. He

20:57

just left and down there.

20:59

Yeah. Good

21:00

job, Mulder. work.

21:02

And then

21:02

the guy again very correctly says,

21:05

like, perhaps you need to reduce your

21:07

vision because he points out if this is

21:09

about finding aliens, Why

21:11

are you also in the Bermuda Triangle hunting

21:14

werewolves? Like, he says, like, perhaps you should

21:16

look where aliens and go to where the

21:18

aliens are. Yeah. Maybe narrow

21:20

your focus. And he's not wrong.

21:22

He's not wrong at all. It's so funny where

21:24

he's just like, most of these can be

21:26

researched on the Internet. And

21:29

like, you're not really hunting aliens most

21:31

of the time and you're costing us a

21:33

lot of money. And he's like, yeah, but

21:35

I got a genie wish. You'd vanished.

21:37

you vanish for an afternoon. The guy's like, yeah,

21:40

that's great. Mhmm. I'm gonna go ahead and write a few

21:42

things about that in my little notebook. They get

21:44

out a separate form here. Yeah.

21:46

Start filling this out.

21:48

And this audit. So

21:51

what happens is Mulder in

21:53

later and skylight's like how to go.

21:55

And at first, it sounds like a joke and

21:57

it is not. Moldor says, I

21:59

never actually assaulted an auditor

22:02

before. Scully smiling

22:04

says, did you hurt him? And

22:06

Mulder I reduced his vision a little

22:08

bit. And then the the episode moves

22:10

on, and it's not a joke. Mm-mm. As

22:12

far as I can tell, he assaulted

22:14

that auditor. Yeah. He rubs the center of his head

22:16

as he says, I've reduced his vision a little

22:18

bit. So the implication is that he head butted

22:20

the skin. Yeah. So this guy sat

22:22

down with Boulder and was like, you're costing us a

22:25

lot of money. You seem to be going after

22:27

aliens, but not really. You

22:29

haven't solved any crimes. how you

22:31

explain this and mold head butted

22:33

him. And that's

22:35

sad for me.

22:37

That is out of

22:40

control. That is one

22:42

of the most out of control

22:44

things he's done in a very long

22:46

time. Yeah. That's that's like

22:48

gondola high check. Yeah.

22:50

We're ten minutes into the edges up

22:52

there with gondola high

22:54

check.

22:55

Yeah. It's --

22:57

Oh, man. -- believable. Unfucking

23:00

believable Mulder.

23:01

It's a Maniac, that

23:03

is that is up there with him choking Dwayne Barry

23:05

leaving the room and coming back into the room

23:07

to find Dwayne Barry choked to

23:10

death. Yeah. he

23:11

that's the same episode. They were gone

23:14

right. check. Yeah. We're

23:16

ten minutes in, and Mulder has

23:18

already lost his job. Mhmm. Like he should. Mold

23:20

is gonna jail. Yeah. He's going to

23:22

jail. He has committed a crime.

23:24

You can't head by a guy who tells

23:26

you you're spending too much

23:28

money. You can't head by

23:30

anyone. period.

23:32

You know? There's some there's some

23:34

situations where head butts are a pro. South

23:36

defense, but Yeah. In this

23:39

case, molders going to jail. Yeah.

23:41

The the the drive through line has

23:43

taken too long. There's a few situations where it had

23:45

that is acceptable. That's true.

23:47

Mhmm. So Billy calls, Billy

23:49

Miles. Moldor immediately

23:51

remembers him, like, some sort of freak. Of

23:54

course, uses like Oregon induction seven years ago.

23:56

Yeah. Because that's all that's in his brain.

23:58

It's it's it's baseball statistics in all

23:59

of his x files. We've been over this.

24:02

Yeah. He also says Oregon like a freak.

24:05

He

24:05

sure does.

24:07

Like a real thing. Skinner

24:09

says that right later. skin

24:11

is like Yeah. Malder's in Oregon.

24:13

Malder says

24:14

Oregon. Like, it's an alien planet.

24:17

Yeah. Like, let's see, like, it's fucking

24:19

more door. Let's just

24:23

land. Listen. His head's still a

24:25

little hazy from the head from the

24:27

head. Yeah. It's one of the it's

24:29

it's it's the first time you realize there's a

24:31

technique to it. Right. Like, oh, I can't

24:32

just smash my noggin against somebody

24:35

else's noggin. That actually hurts

24:37

me too. So Yeah. I feel

24:39

like got more hurt from the

24:41

headbutt. No. He

24:43

did. Knowing Boulder.

24:45

He he is not good at fighting.

24:47

No. No.

24:48

He's the lead candidate in

24:50

fact. Yeah. So he's mostly just,

24:52

like, really fucking moody during this

24:55

Well, he gets Yeah. The the

24:57

meeting with the auditor really depresses

25:00

him because he

25:02

starts thinking about, like, I don't know, wasting his life

25:04

and then thinking about having dragged Sculley

25:06

into it and how Sculley

25:08

has, like, taken serious personal

25:10

and professional first having to stick up

25:12

for him for seven years. Right. So he's smoping around

25:15

about that the whole episode. Yeah. And

25:17

he's like, man, he has, like,

25:19

when he like, they find

25:20

a bullet casing at the crime scene. And

25:22

the detective was like,

25:23

what was he shooting at? Well, there's probably

25:25

nothing. He goes nothing. He goes nothing. He goes nothing. He

25:27

goes, all people seem to

25:29

find out here detective. Like and then they just leave.

25:32

That's all they do. They don't check

25:34

the forest. Like, he's just very mopey

25:37

in general. We should we should

25:39

perhaps look into why the sheriff's

25:41

deputy fired his weapon three times before he

25:43

disappeared. Yeah. Maybe you

25:45

should look towards, like, where he fired Maybe we should look

25:47

for the well, the bullets landed.

25:49

They go and look at it. They talk to

25:51

the wife and the wife

25:54

they they answer the door and she's like,

25:56

is this about my missing husband? And mother's

25:58

like, oh, hey, I know you. How are you

26:00

doing? It's like, mother,

26:02

she's in distress, but sure. Moldor

26:04

has to

26:07

clarify in that exchange. He's like, we didn't have

26:09

any idea that you were his wife

26:11

when we came here to talk just to be clear, I'm not, harassing

26:14

you, like, for the case from

26:16

seven years ago.

26:17

Yeah. And then gives him

26:19

some photos and investigates them by looking at

26:22

them in bed as he does. That is what

26:24

he Oh, man. He's just laying in his they're

26:26

spread out all over his bed. It's

26:28

like -- Yeah. -- the episode he's just staring at the haunted

26:31

doll. Right. It's a a

26:33

major part of investigative

26:35

technique is to just lay the evidence

26:37

out and stare at it.

26:39

Yep.

26:39

I wanna talk about what's

26:42

happening to Sculley. Yeah. So

26:44

Sculley is getting light headed and

26:46

woozy. And like you you would think she has,

26:48

like, low blood sugar, but it's very

26:50

funny that and and she turns out just to be

26:52

pregnant. Like, I think that's the only thing

26:54

wrong with her. Right? Is, like, Hi,

26:56

baby's eating her. I thought it

26:58

was I thought it was her

27:00

proximity to the UFO because

27:02

she's experiencing THEY

27:03

SYMPTOMS WHEN SHE COMES TO ROOM

27:05

AND THE IMPLICATION IS THAT'S WHERE THEY HAVE

27:07

SEX AND THEY THEN THE BABY IS CONSIDERED.

27:11

So, well, I wanna talk about that. Yeah. So

27:13

if that

27:14

is, that's fucking wild.

27:16

Because molder so she goes into the room,

27:18

she's like, I'm cold. He spoones her.

27:20

and he rasps. Rasps

27:23

in her ear. Just like a -- Just fucking

27:26

reptilian. -- just right in

27:28

her ear. He he says, I

27:30

want you to go home. And she makes

27:32

sense of scaring. Looking at you

27:34

today, holding that baby,

27:36

knowing everything that's been taken away

27:38

from you, a chance for motherhood, and

27:40

your health, and that baby.

27:43

I think that I don't know. Maybe they're right. It's the

27:45

city. Right? This is the FBI.

27:48

Maybe what they say is true. For all the

27:50

wrong reasons, it's the personal costs that are

27:52

too high. And there's so much more you need

27:54

to do with your life. He's basically like,

27:56

you know how you can't have babies

27:58

sculley. And then he gives her kiss on

27:59

the cheek. And I was like, he's at

28:02

work right now. We'll just serve a couple

28:04

of times. Like, he's

28:05

doing a few. He's doing the

28:07

pillowy lip brush like, on her shoulder

28:09

and stuff, like, throughout this whole speech. It's

28:12

really creepy. This little, like,

28:14

hissing that he's doing into

28:16

her ear, all I could think of was

28:18

the witch. Yeah. Well, I

28:19

could pick up. It's, like, he's, like, too

28:21

little. landline. It's just like scotland.

28:26

there You

28:29

were you were saying that you think this is where

28:31

they made it. The thing about that

28:33

is that it has to be You're right. Is

28:35

it how long does it take to know you're

28:37

all prego? I

28:38

don't know. A

28:40

week. Okay. Two weeks

28:42

and I I have no idea. Let me just take

28:44

that back. I don't know. Okay. But

28:46

also if this is a movie, I mean, movie, this is

28:48

a TV show, and they very frequently don't

28:50

follow actual rules. Mhmm.

28:52

So I I just don't

28:54

know, like, when else it would hit one or

28:56

you should wait at least one to two weeks after

28:58

you had sex. Okay. This is what I was gonna

29:01

say, is that the way they're

29:03

acting, I actually feel like they already

29:05

had sex. because he's acting

29:07

really intimate with her He

29:09

has oh, if you if you look

29:11

like the last season

29:14

and maybe the last two seasons, they

29:16

have been behaving kinda like

29:18

this -- Yeah. -- around each other. Where

29:20

there is this like intimate connection

29:22

between them. Right. And like I said, what's

29:24

gonna happen is they're gonna make it seem

29:26

like a Jesus baby in the next couple

29:29

seasons. and then there'll be a reveal that

29:31

Mulder father more or less. Mhmm.

29:33

But it's kind of implied here.

29:35

What occurred to me is it's probably been

29:37

a few weeks more likely

29:40

And that puts the sex

29:42

around

29:42

the episode Hollywood AD,

29:45

which

29:45

makes more sense to me.

29:49

Like, what would what would you say about

29:51

that?

29:52

Because they're all they're in Hollywood.

29:55

They've had some drinks. there was

29:57

a movie premiere where they're fucking in

29:59

a coffin. That's

29:59

true. At

30:00

the end of the night, they go, come on,

30:02

Skye, let's go out and have some drinks. Couple

30:05

drinks night at the town -- Yeah. --

30:07

double that. They probably fucked during

30:09

that ridiculous ass episode. Which

30:12

means she was technically pregnant during the Fight

30:14

Club episode. in the Genie

30:16

episode. Sure. The episode where they

30:18

getting up raw.

30:19

That's that's my theory. They fight

30:21

out. an arena full of he'd

30:23

be wrestling fans. I think Hollywood

30:25

AD is the one where they action. That would make

30:27

sense. succeed. Oh, man. I love that

30:29

episodes. I love skinner with his

30:31

date, just shove the popcorn in his face

30:33

and have an uptime of his life. Hell

30:36

isn't the only one who got pregnant in

30:38

that one. Oh, hell yeah. skinner

30:40

has so many children after that. Every everyone

30:42

in skinner's orbit got pregnant

30:44

that night. Right. But,

30:45

yeah, that's that's my theory.

30:47

is I don't think this feels like they've

30:50

already been together. They did the I

30:52

really like what they did with this

30:54

is that, yeah, The way because people kept waiting for

30:56

moulder and Mulder to hook up. And it

30:58

does What they did instead is

31:01

you realized they hooked up

31:03

after. Like the episode where they really

31:05

romantically kiss after Sculley's baby,

31:07

you realize, like, oh, shit. They've

31:09

been hooking up this whole time and no one

31:12

told us. Yeah. I think they handled it in a really

31:14

good way because it just they do it

31:16

subtly. Like, it's been a build to this.

31:18

So, like -- Right. -- when molders, like,

31:20

spooning her, and they're having

31:22

this very intimate moment. It's not like

31:24

it doesn't feel out of the blue and

31:26

it doesn't feel like unearned and it also doesn't

31:29

feel like oh, is this gonna be where

31:31

they finally get together? It doesn't feel like that

31:33

either because they've been, like, subtly

31:35

introducing the idea of, well, they do

31:37

have kind of an intimate connection. Alright.

31:39

It's it's really interesting because

31:41

most shows would make it this

31:43

big deal. Yeah. There would there would

31:46

be commercials leading up to it for, like, weeks.

31:48

And finally, they're gonna kiss. And they did

31:50

they didn't do that. And this one,

31:53

it's like, is this slow burn like, several

31:55

episodes, this one and before it, there's

31:57

moments where you're like, wait. Are you guys

31:59

fucking? Yeah. And

32:01

you don't quite know when it started.

32:03

They never let you in on it. Mhmm. And they're like,

32:05

that's private. Mhmm. Private between

32:07

Moulders and Sculley. Yeah. And I like that. So

32:09

my guess is they conceived their child

32:11

during wacky Hollywood episode. I hope

32:13

that's my head candidate, please.

32:15

Maybe they Maniac they fucked in a

32:17

novelty coffin. Does that

32:18

recreate what they saw on scene on

32:20

on screen active? They

32:21

might have. And they I think they must

32:24

have. Yep. because, again, I just

32:26

don't think rasping in Sculley's ear

32:28

about how she can't conceive children

32:30

is is like -- Yeah. -- get a horny

32:32

her up. fucking gravel being I'm

32:34

sorry. Concrete being the concrete block being

32:36

dragged across gravel. It's just like Yeah.

32:39

People horking into her ear.

32:41

It's not much any scene from this episode. This is the scene.

32:43

You know, I was just like watching like

32:45

Jesus Christ. What the fuck

32:48

is that? He's he's really

32:50

he's really projecting onto her. And

32:52

it's -- Yeah. --

32:53

literally a chance for motherhood.

32:56

Really healthy. Yeah. and Skylie's like, well, didn't

32:58

feel bad until now. Yeah.

33:00

He's like nagging her. Yeah. Like,

33:02

boom. Now I feel awful.

33:04

Like, now I feel like I've wasted ten years of

33:06

my life. Yeah. Be a

33:08

weird Oh, weird. You should

33:10

have a nickname. Your nickname should

33:13

be spooky. Yeah.

33:14

I guess you are a

33:17

celebrity.

33:21

And then he's at the crime scene in

33:23

his car glaring. Mhmm. And

33:25

he sees this young man looking nervous,

33:28

and Maltearch just gets out of his car

33:30

like he's fight him. Yeah. And

33:32

just, like, stomped over them, and the

33:34

guy starts walking away and he's like, hey, what are you

33:36

doing? He chases him down like a

33:38

fucking mad grizzly. Yep.

33:40

And then the cops, like, oh, hey. And he's like, you know

33:42

this guy? It's like, are you gonna fight

33:44

him later? Or do you think he's an

33:47

alien right now? He might be going on.

33:49

He might. Yeah.

33:50

The the

33:51

kid the kid does have kinda big

33:53

ears, so maybe he thought yeah.

33:55

He is a weird shaped head, so

33:57

maybe he thought he was an alien in a mask.

33:59

Alright. And that's

34:00

when that guy takes him to the woods. And he's

34:03

like, no, I know everything. Mother sees

34:05

nothing. Sculley gets vibrated.

34:07

and hooked out of the alien shield. Mhmm.

34:10

And they think, oh, she passed out so they go

34:12

back to

34:14

Washington. Moulder is then in his office,

34:16

throwing his basketball, skitter

34:19

walks in, and Mueller says,

34:21

what's our punishment this time? thumb

34:23

screws and four forty lashes.

34:26

Come on in, Walter, sit a

34:28

spell. And it's like, oh, you

34:30

are a. little mopi

34:32

edge lure right now. He's been real,

34:34

real, fresh. Yeah. Skitters should put

34:36

him in a headlock right there and then -- Yeah.

34:38

-- just take the ball from him and bounce it off

34:40

his head. Yeah. So molders just

34:42

like, man, we once again, we

34:45

wasted your money and then

34:47

the skinner. Entergy his cry check. And what does mother do?

34:49

He immediately gets up and tries to fight him to

34:52

the point where he tries to kill him, I

34:54

think. Interesting. to physically

34:56

restrain you. Yep. Easily

34:58

restrain him without it it's

35:00

key without making a noise.

35:02

Yeah. Moldors just goes up and at him like a dog

35:05

seeing another dog. Yep. It's

35:07

amazing. He is just no

35:10

one restrains him, he I'm pretty

35:12

sure he's just gonna murder Christchurch. We've

35:14

seen this. We've seen this, like, every

35:17

interaction they've had the past several seasons on-site

35:19

Mulder attacks, Cryogenic. It's so funny.

35:22

Yeah. Because I know Cryogenic killed his father.

35:24

I get it. Yeah. But in this

35:26

instance, it's so funny how

35:28

it is like a dog. Mhmm. Like, he's

35:30

Moldor is not like, what is this? What's going

35:32

on? Yeah. What's he doing? Like, oh, I just

35:34

bring him in. Yeah. He just sees Crycheck

35:37

I fear for anybody who like,

35:40

if you ran into Mulder, Tom

35:42

-- Yeah. -- he meets specifically.

35:44

Yeah. Yeah. I fear anybody who looks like Crycheck because he probably if you

35:46

saw you at, like, the mall -- Yeah. -- he would just

35:48

you'd look over and you'd see him sprinting right

35:52

towards you. quietly as fast as he could. Yeah. Like

35:54

the t one thousand. Yeah. Like

35:56

John dockets. Exactly.

35:58

It's so funny how

35:59

he reacts.

36:02

Yeah. We

36:03

have birds seeing its reflection.

36:05

He does. He's just kill

36:07

mode instantly. Immediately.

36:10

Yep.

36:12

He tells

36:12

Sculley to stay behind. He says, I'm not gonna

36:14

risk losing you. And it's

36:16

like, man,

36:16

Moldor, you really need her help more

36:18

than she needs yours. But whatever.

36:21

Because then Mulder

36:22

gets abducted. Well, he thinks,

36:24

like, they think leading up

36:26

to

36:26

that, like, her, like, dizzy spells and

36:28

the the way she's feeling is

36:31

her image to the UFO, so you think that means she's gonna

36:33

be abducted again. What skulling realizes is that,

36:35

no, they rejected her, and that means

36:37

they want molder. Mulder

36:40

I wanna talk

36:41

about this forever. See, because first of all,

36:43

when I say molar gets abducted,

36:45

I'm being I'm

36:48

I'm I'm That's not quite what happens.

36:50

Mulder essentially walks into

36:52

a ship. Yeah. He walks inside the ship.

36:56

Yeah. Other people have to be dragged by the bounty

36:58

hunter. Mulder just walks right

37:00

in. It's like a roach trap for and

37:03

I find that very funny. Of

37:05

course. was it was always gonna end this

37:07

way. Yeah. It was just AAA

37:09

stick and a box trap. You just you

37:11

just lead a trail of alien breadcrumbs and

37:13

he will walk right into it. Right. And the

37:16

realization is that could have been

37:18

objected at any point. Mhmm. All they had to

37:20

do is say, over there, there's

37:22

a ship. go on in and he would have gone in. Mhmm. And I

37:24

think they know that and I think it's really

37:26

funny because what happened is it feels like

37:28

the early in

37:30

bounty hunter has spent seven years being annoyed by molder.

37:32

Right? He famously threw

37:34

threw Gamefully of his submarine.

37:36

Yeah. Yeah. And

37:38

I just going back to that, it's the

37:41

any

37:41

better hunter hunter

37:42

just kills people, and it

37:45

so funny that he just beats up molder, and

37:47

molder is not worth killing. Mhmm. And he

37:49

just throws him outside like a bug

37:52

that he found and he's just like,

37:54

look at him. He's not gonna hurt

37:56

anybody. He just does it's so funny

37:58

how little the aliens

37:59

it it it's

38:01

like It it's like

38:02

whenever you hear Kevin Smith talk about when

38:04

he almost meets George Lucas and Lucas

38:06

just avoids him. Yeah. It's that.

38:08

where the aliens are just like, oh, not that fucking Like that guy,

38:10

like, he's like a weird fanboy

38:13

for the aliens. It's so and

38:15

when he walks into the

38:17

center of these all the ad inventories.

38:19

And then they sort of, like, part in the alien bounty

38:22

hunters walking towards them. Like, in my

38:24

mind, it was, like, the alien bounty hunters been out

38:26

there for,

38:28

like, several hours trying to find Mulder and bring him here. Like, do you hit

38:30

that Mulder? And then he gets, like, oh, you're you're

38:32

here. Yeah. You're already here. Of course, you should've Of

38:34

course, I should've known. I should've known.

38:37

because it's just Gamefully, the aliens

38:39

have after years and years are like,

38:41

you know what? Let's just grab that molder. Let's

38:43

just grab that molder We should we

38:45

should probably look into a separation to dissect his brain, see what's going on

38:47

in there. Spoilers, the

38:50

stuff that supposedly is

38:52

happening to mold her in the next season or the yeah.

38:54

Season n episode is funny as

38:56

hell because it does feel like they're

38:58

just bullying him on the ship.

39:00

Yeah. So mother just walks directly onto the

39:02

ship and he's so into it.

39:04

He's so excited when he gets on

39:06

there. He's trying to hide it. trying

39:09

to be It's it's frictionless at the end of

39:11

close encounters. Yeah. So it's precisely what

39:13

it is. And then the ship leaves

39:16

-- Yeah. -- he just walks on.

39:18

It's amazing. Yep. He just

39:20

leaves. Like, Kim is skinnier in the

39:22

woods setting up lasers to try to find

39:24

this invisible

39:26

ship. Mulder just walks into the trees and leaves.

39:28

Right. Because here's the thing. They're they're

39:30

trying to set up lasers and they find

39:32

they find the border of the ship

39:36

because the laser stop? So what does Boulder do?

39:38

He sticks his hand in it. Mhmm.

39:40

And that's how he gets abducted. Because again,

39:43

it is so easy to abduct mold. We've

39:45

talked about this so many times

39:48

an alien or just a

39:50

serial You literally just have to have a van, and you have to

39:52

say, hey, moldur, I know where there's

39:54

aliens get in my

39:56

van. Mhmm. And

39:58

that's basically why There's aliens in the van, Mulder.

40:00

Just peek in there. Yeah. Just

40:02

peek just yeah. Peak in.

40:05

And so, yeah, gets abducted

40:07

in the sense that he walks onto

40:09

a ship. Yeah. He

40:10

got stranded stranded

40:13

by aliens. Yep. That's all

40:15

I have for molder

40:16

after dark. Yeah. That's everything. But I mean

40:18

-- Alright. -- it's a lot. It's

40:22

a lot. And

40:24

I guess we should talk about Oh, okay.

40:26

No.

40:26

I was just gonna say they they they thought

40:28

they were close in the book on Mulder, so they made

40:30

him go out with a bang.

40:33

It's so funny that they just How

40:35

does molder go out? Well, he would

40:38

naturally just get walk

40:40

onto an million ship and they'd leave with him. I mean, it is the it is logical

40:42

conclusion to his story. Is he

40:44

would get close and countered?

40:48

Yep. And then skulling has to wake up and they have to it's like they lost

40:50

a cat. They're like, we we finally

40:52

lost Mulder. It is only a matter

40:54

of time. It's kinda how

40:56

skinner delivers it because he's, like, choked up, but

40:58

he doesn't actually cry. He's, like, I lost

41:00

him. I lost him. I'm sorry. He gotta wait.

41:02

We'll get a new one. Yeah. And it's,

41:04

like, he even uses the same language you'd use.

41:06

Wow. So it is

41:08

just like he left the door open and the cat

41:10

got out. Right. Because he

41:12

does say I lost him. Yeah. And

41:14

it's very funny because it's like, well, you could

41:16

argue Boulder lost himself. Right? Yeah.

41:18

He won't. It's like Yeah. No one

41:20

thinks of Boulder as, like, a human

41:22

capable of making decisions, rational

41:24

decisions. Or, yeah, really, really fully

41:26

in control of his actions at any

41:28

given time. So going

41:30

into fireable offenses, again,

41:33

first five minutes, ten minutes, he

41:35

beats he assaulted some an auditor. head

41:37

butts an auditor so hard judging

41:39

by what he said. He said, I I what

41:41

did he say? I narrowed his vision.

41:44

Yeah. He presumably head butted this

41:46

guy so hard that he broke

41:48

his glasses. Yeah. So that yeah. That's

41:50

a immediate fireable offense.

41:52

That's a bad the

41:55

bad one one. In in

41:57

in most and in any other sit professional situation,

41:59

you would

41:59

assume so. Yeah? Yeah. If you worked in

42:02

a subway,

42:02

have you worked in a subway if

42:04

you head butted another employee. Yeah. If you got called, you'd

42:07

get fired. because

42:08

they they thought you were you

42:11

know, you're you're they had an

42:13

auditor come in and they and then you got called the back because

42:15

your drawer keeps coming up short and you head butt

42:18

that person. You're going

42:19

home. Yeah. You're going home. And both of

42:21

them. You're going you're taking a trip

42:23

to jail first, and then, yeah, maybe home. The

42:26

scene in Skaters office just feels

42:28

illegal, the part

42:30

where Crycheck and the lone

42:32

gunman are just, like, in his office

42:34

going over secret bullshit.

42:36

It's what the funny the funny thing in

42:38

the COVERUVIOUS too. She's like a

42:40

big time Well,

42:41

Gamefully, maybe she's not, like, a

42:43

known criminal. But, like,

42:46

I can't decide whether it's more

42:48

alarming, like, whether the bigger national

42:50

security risk being in skinner's office is Crycheck or the lone

42:53

gunman. Right? Because I think Crycheck

42:55

is discrete. He knows how to

42:57

keep his mouth shut.

42:59

The lone gunman are going

43:01

to write about. Yeah. They're immediately

43:03

going home and publishing this in

43:05

their scene. Yeah. The lone gunman

43:07

are having, like, that idea of like, what

43:09

do you get out of it? It's like, oh, I know what they get out of it. They're just like, this

43:11

is juicy fucking conspiracy shit.

43:15

They love it. They're gonna

43:16

do an exclusive interview with Crycheck you don't even know

43:19

existed. This is their hogs slap and

43:21

they love it. Yeah.

43:23

So, yeah, I'd wanna I want a

43:25

whole episode of the lone gunman

43:27

in Crycheck. Yeah. I love the

43:29

lone gunman trying to finish Crycheck,

43:31

like their new molder.

43:33

Yeah. That should've been the spin off. You had them calling

43:36

him to, like, stop. I don't wanna I

43:37

don't wanna trade porn with you for a

43:40

hickey. I don't wanna go play, like,

43:42

play D and D. you guys gotta get

43:44

out of my life. I love that idea and

43:46

crichy just like can't kill them because

43:48

he's bad at it. He

43:50

keeps

43:50

killing three other random

43:52

people. They're other

43:54

nerds. They're other nerds that just happen

43:56

to be all the same places.

43:58

Yeah. That's a

43:59

great show. But, yeah,

44:01

that's that's all I have. I mean,

44:03

like, the it's molder head butting

44:05

an auditor is pretty fucking bad.

44:07

Pretty significant. Yeah. It

44:09

doesn't really doesn't really matter that he's

44:11

essentially going by the book for the rest of

44:13

the episode. Except when he hops that

44:16

kid down the crime scene for no reason. Yeah. That's also fucking Although, that's not really

44:18

that's not really fireable. You can just say, uh-huh,

44:20

he looks suspicious. Yeah. They

44:22

do that all the

44:22

time. Yeah. It's just bad.

44:26

It

44:26

is bad. Yeah.

44:28

Alright. Well,

44:28

time to name the enabler then.

44:32

I feel like it's a

44:35

Yeah.

44:36

Yeah. It's definitely skinnier. Yeah. because

44:38

Sculley

44:38

Sculley is like, I

44:40

wanna go with you, Mulder. and

44:44

skinner and molder go aft together and

44:46

molder comes back and goes, I lost

44:48

him. And so, yeah, skinner kind

44:50

of fucked up. I

44:50

mean, he should have known. You know? Yeah. You don't go UFO

44:53

hunting with Mulder and I expect it to

44:55

go well. I assume the reason Mulder

44:57

never hears any repercussions head

45:00

buttoning the auditors because of skinner's influence and intervention. Exactly.

45:02

So like paid off the

45:04

auditors or something. Yeah. And then I

45:06

guess the

45:07

aliens are kind of enablers. Although,

45:09

I I'm really like, I love the thought

45:11

of, like, being on that ship. And, like,

45:13

the manager, Aileen is, like, really, this guy

45:16

and the bounty hunter was,

45:18

like, listen. I needed one more person. I wanted to meet my

45:20

quota, and he just wouldn't go

45:22

away. He's always alone. So I'm

45:24

always alone.

45:26

Yeah.

45:26

Like,

45:28

that's probably what happened. Like, what

45:30

caused them to abduct at this point?

45:32

It's gotta be the the bounty hunter saw

45:34

him and he was like, you know what? Him.

45:36

Did

45:37

I just open slots? Yeah.

45:40

I'm just gonna grab

45:42

him. Yeah.

45:42

me Alright.

45:44

Well, time for our crazy like

45:46

a fox, our final segment. Oh, man.

45:48

Our final segment for

45:52

the final stretch of original run Yeah.

45:54

I mean, spoilers. He will be back

45:56

in the next few episodes. Yeah. Yeah.

45:59

But they want to go

45:59

for a while without any

46:02

Yeah.

46:02

And we'll figure out. We'll

46:03

figure that out. We'll figure it out. But for

46:05

now, I have some thoughts. This is

46:07

the part of the episode. We reassign an america ranking from

46:09

one to ten to grade Mulder's behavior in the episode.

46:11

One being professional, professional,

46:16

professional reasonable, well adjusted adult

46:18

representative of the federal

46:20

government, ten being none of those things,

46:22

just not

46:24

not a damn one of those things I just said. Mhmm.

46:26

And it

46:27

feels fitting that I believe.

46:29

I do believe. This is a

46:31

this is a ten. This is

46:33

A10 day. Yeah. That is perfect ten for Molding to

46:36

go out. Mulder walking

46:38

on an alien ship alone.

46:41

But, I mean, or rather just the first ten

46:43

minutes alone. Get butting a

46:46

fucking auditor. He went he did

46:48

a ten be like, in

46:50

the first fucking ten minutes. He's further,

46:52

like before the, like, the

46:54

plot begins. Yeah. He's at a ten.

46:56

Yeah. And then I think the

46:57

cumulative score of walking on

47:00

wandering onto a spaceship,

47:02

and then is, like, hissing

47:04

is sculley's ear. Yeah. All

47:07

these -- It's weird. -- all these weird hang ups that

47:09

he's projecting onto her. Yeah. It's I think you're

47:11

gonna be

47:11

doing additional ten. Yeah.

47:14

He's done it's it's both kinds of tense because, like,

47:17

he's endangered the lives of others before.

47:19

Mhmm. And you could argue he

47:21

never actually endangers lives. Lot

47:23

of mishaps. on a plane with an alien device

47:26

in one episode that was

47:28

known for crashing planes -- Mhmm. -- and

47:30

he got So, like, he

47:32

has he has literally put children at

47:34

risk. But what this is is

47:36

it's a rare combination

47:38

of like. Assulting someone is

47:40

enough, but then also his general

47:42

attitude throughout the weird Sculley

47:46

scene also feels like enough or he acts like a fucking

47:48

alien himself and the

47:50

decisions he makes. So it's it's

47:52

it's a It's

47:54

like all the molder. You know what I mean? They gave us every little,

47:56

every piece of the Every part of

47:58

the molder, yeah, for sure. Beautiful. Beautiful

48:02

episode. Mhmm. And I'm

48:04

i'm again, spoilers

48:06

for the next episode. He's technically not

48:08

in the episode, but it's not a zero.

48:12

So, like, it there's an echo

48:14

of Mulder that we're gonna get after

48:16

this. So don't don't feel sad. He

48:18

will continue season. He will continue to haunt these hallways.

48:20

Yeah. Where are you gonna

48:22

get? If I recall the way season

48:24

eight works is that there's, like, a chunk in

48:26

the middle. where

48:28

they try to do business as usual. And that's

48:30

when the fans were like, no, we're

48:32

not watching, and they were like, okay.

48:35

We're gonna have to get Dave to

48:37

come me back. So I don't think he's

48:39

gone for season a. I think he's gone

48:41

for, like, about half of it. about half

48:43

of it. Yeah. Maybe even less. So we'll we'll figure

48:45

that out. But yeah,

48:48

until

48:49

next time, Like

48:52

we said, this is a free episode, and you

48:54

can see the conclusion of this because this is

48:56

Mulder has been abducted. What's gonna

48:58

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49:00

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49:02

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49:04

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49:08

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50:02

Season eight's gonna be very interesting. I'm kind of I'm kind of excited

50:04

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50:06

then season nine, he's back baby. Yeah.

50:09

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50:11

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50:16

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50:20

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50:22

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50:26

Exactly. Were those shades he wore when he got sucked

50:28

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50:30

into the video game? And we ripped

50:32

his sleeves off and threw on some sunglasses.

50:36

or the shades he wore the first time he was in a computer and they put

50:38

those stupid goggles on him, remember that?

50:40

Mm-mm. Where he was just like

50:43

Maniac. Remember when he got trapped

50:45

by a robot? I do. And

50:47

a robot in a

50:49

in a trailer. What an ass Like is another trap

50:51

that he just walked into? Yeah. He most of

50:54

his traps work that way or

50:56

most of the times he

50:58

gets trapped Remember when the doppelganger

51:00

just locked him in a basement of like a

51:04

hospital? Mhmm. god.

51:06

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51:08

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51:10

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51:12

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