And ‘shipping doesn’t have to be Mulder and Scully getting it on, you sick bastards. However, the real divide amongst X-Files in regards to this episode will be where you stand on the ‘shipping debate. At times, as we saw tonight, it has slowed down the storytelling and telegraphed the coming moves. For the most part, they’ve succeeded in paying homage to the past, even when it’s less than subtle. In a lot of respects, The X-Files revival has done many things right in the nostalgia department returning to its original shooting home in Vancouver (re: the scenic final shot of this episode), last week’s ode to Kim Manners, and bringing back important “actors of a certain age” as the Smoking Man William B.
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for going above and beyond to replicate some of the magic of the X-Files’ early years and honor those who helped make the series what we can fondly look back on today. I have to give credit to Chris Carter and Co. Trash Man is a genuinely terrifying monster, the best we’ve seen in the revival thus far, but he’s secondary to the William arc that claims its first casualty and what Morgan told EW was the third in a trilogy of episodes that explores Scully’s relationship with motherhood. The foul-smelling vigilante bares no relation to Spoonman, but nonetheless provides looks that are equally as sinister. Here it’s a murderous sanitation creature, “Trash Man,” who is the Batman of Philadelphia’s homeless population. I still enjoyed it, but this was probably the weakest episode of the revival so far.Following up his brother’s already beloved Monster-of-the-Week comedy episode, Morgan sticks to a similar formula that long-time writing partner James Wong used in “Founder’s Mutation.” Take a noble cause, find a bad guy that goes way beyond the job description, and add a pinch of William. And Scully’s plot in the episode deserved to have more of a role, and should have been cast against a stronger A plot. Trashman didn’t draw me in as a bad guy, even though he was a vicious killer with a good cause. This episode has all the components of a great one, but the connection felt disjointed to me. Mulder has nothing to say, and just comforts her. That feels a bit existential to me, especially given Scully’s reliance on science, but I understand where the writers are coming from on this one.
She believes that William is their responsibility, even though they gave him up, and that her mysteries will never be answered now that her mother is gone. Scully believes that Margaret needed to know ALL her kids would be alright before she passed – speaking to Charlie satisfied her need. Mulder and Scully are seated on a log by the water, and they discuss what has happened. The only remnant? A bandaid on the ground. He’s savagely dismembered as the agents arrive on the scene, but the culprit disappears into thin air. He’s drawn into an extra creepy part of the hospital by a noise, and you know what happens from here. On the way out, Mulder steps on a particularly nasty looking bandaid, and keeps it as evidence.Ĭut to the lawyer (Landry), who is being a jerk while relocating the homeless people. Upon examining the security footage, we discover that the cameras are all knocked out of position before we see anything (typical), but the office cam indicates that the attacker was very tall, and Mulder notices there is no street art outside – it had to have been painted after the murder. He spies a large piece of street art depicting a creature of some sort through the window. Mulder tells her to go in a pretty awkward exchange (maybe should’ve taken that one again), and he continues to check out the area. Matters are cut short though as Scully gets a phone call – her mom has had a heart attack, and is in the ICU in a coma.
Scully notes that the muscles were torn, not cut, something that ought to be impossible for a human to do.
Of course, Mulder and Scully are called to investigate, and as they begin to investigate the office we get some good old fashioned Mulder wit regarding the killer not using the proper recycling bins. The X-Files revival stumbles slightly with a disjointed tale that tries to weave monsters into Scully’s personal life.
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