X-Files 5.19 "Folie a Deux"

Hey everybody. I liked this epiosde! Not enough to forgive them for
this season, but enough to say: "Hey everybody, I liked this episode!" Now,
was that a (714) area code the guy was calling? That's orange county!
Look out Diana, hang up that phone when the telemarketer starts saying "it's
Here!" Or before. Didn't Skinner's assistant sound bored or even
annoyed when she announced Mulder and Scully's arrival? How many times do they
get called into the principal's office, I wonder. Mulder is such an
a******. Sorry, there's not a better word for it. HE asked to be
monster-boy--He insisted, against the will of each and every one of his superiors, to
be assigned to the X-Files. And it IS his job to do as he's told--Anyone else
out there bored with their jobs? Poor Baby. Scully, of course, does as
she's told, always dutiful, she does Mulder's scut work--the stuff
that's too tedious for him, because it's her job. The scene where she tells
him "I told you so" was adorable, and I loved how proud he was as she
showed him the needle she'd found in one of his haystacks. As always, I loved
to see Mulder doing what we've been told he was recruited into the Bureau
to do: Profile criminals. I also liked his calm in the face of chaos, as
his training kicked in and he began to reason with an unreasonble man.
Scully, meanwhile, walks into Mulder's mess and immediately starts proteting
him. "Sir, we need to find a better way." She's the one who should be
giving the orders--if Mulder had taken her with him, maybe she could have
anticiapted this, or at least helped him out of the situation. Instead
she's stuck with OTHER AGENTS, who are always stupid. They don't
listen to her, and a guy gets killed. Hey, Mulder losses his gun, but this time,
it's not his fault--where was his ankle gun (grrrr). We'll call it
even since his fingers were bandaged from last week. The OTHER AGENTS hasty
"we're running out of options" seemed too hasty. Loved how anxious she was
to get him out of there, to take care of him, and how distressed she was
at his distress--"Has Mulder been drinking from his tapped tap again?" she
must have wondered, or was it just good ol' paranoid, gullible surly rebel
Mulder from season's past?

Question: Does Scully have her own office?
She's surprised to find him in his, so what was she doing? Is her
office in his? I mean, she's a Doctor for crying out loud, she should have
her own office. In "Never Again" she complains she doesn't have a desk,
but she was at a desk in earlier episodes, and she "drops by" often in a
way that implies she spends a lot of time else where. Hokay, sorry.
"Sick, disturbed, demented" uh...that sounds like Mulder to me. Loved her
rationalizing HIS behavior--it's bad enough she does it for herself,
but here we see her ascribing sane motivations to make Her feel better
about HIM. Mulder doesn't care, he knows he's right, but Scully isn't
comfortable, so she assures him (HER) that there's a rational excuse
for his behaviior. Then Mulder has the audacity to cheat on her with the
OTHER AGENT--you bastard! When Mulder looks out the window and sees that
zombie, it reminded me of this hella scary "Six Million Dollar Man" I saw when
I was kid--scared the crap out of me., Steve Austin (the bionic man)
has anear-death experience, and keeps seeing this glowing likeness of
himself everywhere, plus, he keeps almost getting killed. This woman tells him
it's his soul trying to finish the job--it's been freed from his body
but it can't go into the afterlife wth the body still demanding on living.
In true Scully/Scooby-Doo fashion, it's just someone trying to drive him
nuts, and kill him. Loved Scully covering for Mulder, as usual. She's such
a bad liar. Skinner has to know she's holding out on him, but she looks
so fetching in her red suit, and so he lets her do whatever she wants.
Later, when Mulder is institutionalized ("you must've seen this coming") she
reaches for his hand, comforts him. She doesn't WANT to humor him, to
perpetuate his delusion, but when he expresses his need for her, when
he reiterates that she is the ONLY one for him, the onlyone he'll ever
trust, and who really trusts him, she relents. he looks so fetching strapped down
in that hospital gown, she does what ever he wants. That SOUNDS sexual,
but this is Mulder and Scully we're talking about--he wants her to perform
an autopsy on a zombie. Before she was bit, that woman has a smile on her
face that confirms she gave Mulder his sponge bath--I find it hard to
believe a nurse in a psychiatric hospital would say "Don't let the bed
bugs bite" to a paranoic. Then she gets bit and turns into nurse Rathcet.
Anyone out ther ever read "People of the Lie" by M. Scott Peck. this
episode reminded me of it. I mean, in it , he basically speculates
about the existance of EVIL, real evil, in people. He was (is?) a
psychiatrist, and he relates these stories about really evil people. I mean, Scully
sees that this woman is "dead" but is that real, or is it just like when you
(and we all have) get a "bad feeling" about someone? We encounter monsters
and zombies everyday. Then Scully goes in and shoots the thing. She saw
the same thing Mulder did, but she can't admit it. She can't understand it
so she won't acknowledge it. She won't tell Skinner the TRUTH, that she
saw a monster and a zombie, nor will she look Mulder in the eye when she
talks about God--because she CAN"T sound crazy, she must be taken seriously
at all times. Mulder doesn't mind being lauged at, hell, he LIKES being
different--he just needs HER, his "ONE in Five Billion" . Scully can't
handle that. Her identity is tied up too close with how she is
perceived by others (especially father -figures, sorry Skinner), and that
perception has to be "perfect, competent, acceptable, GOOD." Ain't no room for
crazy. But in the end, she does reciprocate to Mulder, that theirs is a
madness shared by two--and, fortunately, by us...:)

Mulder's got an old flame next week.
Kyrcek, lone Gunmen, jealous Scully, oh yeah, I'm there :)

Christine