It definitely warms the dark, cold cockles of my heart, anyway. It feels so much more natural to see Mulder reaching for Scully, taking her hand and offering her a supportive hug during such emotionally heightened moments. Given their chilly relationship in last month's pilot, it's reassuring to see them finding each other again as the season progresses. At least Mulder is there with her by then, another seasoned pro when it comes to bedside death vigils. The scene was a nice call-back and felt in keeping with the miraculous nature of Dana's recovery and her mother's abiding faith.īut Margaret's doctor reveals that she had amended that decision, and Scully is forced to watch them take her mother off the machines. In a phone conversation with the aforementioned Bill, Scully reveals that her mother wanted to be kept on life support as long as possible they had discussed the possibility following Dana's own coma experience. I can't be the only one to find him a complete jackass-can I get a show of hands?) (Personally, I was just glad that abrasive brother Bill didn't make an appearance. Scully, of course, is no stranger to either hospitals or comas, and rushes to her mother's bedside to find that the last thing she asked for was her long-lost brother, Charlie. Mother Margaret Scully (Sheila Larken) is in the hospital following a heart attack and has fallen into a coma. The X-Files has never held back when it comes to shocking the audience-it's nice to see this new run is staying true to that spirit.Īs Mulder (David Duchovny) digs into exactly what the Band-Aid Nose Man is, Scully (Gillian Anderson) gets some bad news. It's a brutal sort of justice: a figure embodying the trash, the homeless, everything thrown carelessly aside and ignored, coming back to enact a bloody revenge on those who most embody the system responsible.Īnd on a less symbolic, less meaningful note, seeing a man literally disarmed with a single yank is awesome in the original sense of the word. So when a garbage truck pulls up outside of the offices of the men responsible, and a hulking, rotting figure steps inside, we already know what's coming. Right from the get go, we're meant to sympathize with the people who are literally being washed off the street like trash, treated as less than human. The opening shot of men using power hoses against the homeless sure does hit straight to the gut, especially given the demonstrations, protests, and marches in recent years. And in this week's episode, Mulder and Scully face some unusually bloody ramifications from such a project. It's a fraught topic of debate a real bone of contention. When you were in the hospital like this.Īnd I'm not just talking money-when cities decide to “clean up” certain neighborhoods and make them more appealing to businesses and families, what do you suppose happens to the poor and homeless who used to walk those alleys? The ones that used to shelter in those run down buildings? SCULLY: Back in the day, didn't we ever come across the ability to wish someone back to life?
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