Rihards Unplugged

Finished watching season four a few days ago already, but have had trouble choosing the best episodes, and for most of these I have gone with pure gut feel, and I’m sure that there will be those of you who won’t agree with some of the choices, but it’s my list, so without further ado, I present you, the best season four episodes.

The Field Where I Died, begins with an FBI raid on a doomsday cult mansion. In this episode Mulder and Scully meet a woman, Melissa, who claims to know Mulder from a previous life during the American Civil War. While Scully doesn’t believe her, as usually Mulder does and thinks that he himself does remember her as well. Her, and Scully too. It’s a very emotional episode, especially the end, so two thumbs up.

Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man, is one of those episodes which explains a lot about a mysterious character. While it does make him look less dangerous and mysterious in the end. It also tells us from where he comes, what he is like privately and where he is going. A very good episode which tells us a lot of things about the Cigarette-Smoking Man. For example, did you know that he is an aspiring “science fiction” writer?

One of the “humour” episodes. Small Potatoes, tells the story of a small town where the babies are being born with a tail. The women all share the same OB-GYN so he gets the initial blame, but then Mulder finds a man who can change his appearance at will. One thing leads to another and Mulder gets locked in a small room while the man takes his appearance and travels with Scully back to FBI headquarters.

One of the funniest bits is where AD Skinner asks Mulder and Scully about the report, specifically who wrote it. When Mulder(actually the man who has taken Mulder’s appearance) replies that he did, Skinner tells him that he misspelled ‘Federal Bureau of Investigation’ wrong. Mulder quickly replies that it’s a typo, and Skinner adds ‘twice’.

Gethsemane is the sort of episode that one would think is a season and series ender episode. If I watched this episode when they were on TV and there wouldn’t be any confirmation of season five, then I’d probably freak out. In this episode, Scully reports that UFOs are really a way of easily covering things up for the government. When Mulder argues with Scully about it, she says something which really upsets Mulder, and that is that the government gave her the incurable cancer so that he would believe.

Shortly there after we find out that Mulder has committed suicide and that Scully positively IDs his body. A sad ending, but we know that things will continue with Mulder in season five, so I can’t wait. Oh and for those of you who keep on googling for ‘the episode Mulder dies’, there have been two episodes so far. The first one is season 1 finale and season 2 opening episode, where he dies in the desert and is then brought back to life by the indians from the spirit world. And the second time he dies is in Gethsemane where he commits suicide.

One could of course argue as well that the first time he died was in American Civil War, but that was in his previous life, if such things exist anyway. So we won’t count that one.