X-Files Season 2 Episodes 9-12

Firewalker: For those of you hoping for an episode about Firewalkers, sorry but this isn’t the case. However, there is a firewalker if you’re counting the contraption crafted for walking through the lowest parts of a volcano. Mulder and Scully are sent to deal with a disappearance of a science officer highly regarded for his almost prophetic work in the geology department. The team turned up a silicon based lifeform which is parasitic by nature and can survive the depths of volcanic ash. The clip plays out a lot like the thing without doing violating searches on one another. Rather, they appear unaware of the infection and only their science officer who’s gone on a killing spree did catch onto the infection. I beg to ask how a lifeform that would depend on taking humans for host isolated within a volcano could manage to survive so long. More yet, how such a spore would be able to breed in temperature much colder than it preferred environment. I loved the effort place into this episode. Aside from that enormous loop hole, the episode felt spot on. I rank this episode 4 out of 5.

Red Museum: A bunch of kid periodically end up in the wood without their clothes except for undergarments with “he is one” or “she is one” written on their backs. The town’s sheriff believes a religious cultic vegan group called the Red Museum might be behind the kidnappings. As Mulder investigates he finds that the ill relationships between the Red Museum and the townspeople might be a result of some conspiracy. The episode hints at government involvement with growth hormones might be part of a conspiracy or a cause of heighten aggression. At the capture of a prime suspect who had been creeping on people, Dana found a link to this case and the Erlenmeyer’s Flask. This episode also destroys my theory that Mulder basically lives off of sunflower seed and coffee and maybe diet soda. I rank this episode 4.75 out of 5.

Excelsis Dei: A woman working for a nursing home appears to have been raped by Casper. The facility doesn’t buy her story that she had been raped, and the invisible man is an elderly man. The man, being in his state, may have history of sexual harassment yet not definitive means to take charge of her. The case appear a little more likely when a drug allowing spiritual projection been passed around the elderly of the residence. Strangely enough, the drug seems to influence the patient’s Alzheimer. The first questions that pop into my head are: why would ghosts have a bunch of chitter chatter sounds? Why when one of the patients started painting a mural, Mulders suspected the Asian Orderly? How would they not notice someone they allow to live in the basement had been growing mushrooms? What are those shadowy figures trying to take the elderly men when they overdose? I’m pretty sure they took a number from White Noise. I rank this episode 1.5 out of 5.

Aubrey: This one was all kinds of stupid. It starts out with a woman on the police force being given an address so that the father could talk to her in private. He didn’t seem to like the idea of letting his family know about his affair or at least not this way. Apparently, being a serial killer is genetically based down. Not only is that, but the mind of the serial killer also passed down much like a possession. I rank this episode 0.75 out of 5.