[OPENING QUOTE]
VOSBERG: There it is again. Did you see that? You saw that shadow,
didn't you?
TECHNICIAN: Yeah, but what could be moving around in that kind of
heat?
VOSBERG: I don't know, maybe it was, uh, just a ghost signal.
It wouldn't be the first time.
(Pierce continues to pan across the area, but there is no sign of
what caused the shadow. The video feed is then lost, leaving only
static on the monitor.)
VOSBERG: What's going on up there?
***************************************
While Agent Donald waits for Agent Anna to pick him up at the diner,
A.D. Solo, sits in his rowboat on the lake behind the diner.
Suddenly the rope that the boat was moored to snaps, and the boat
slowly drifts away.
The boat comes to rest on a small island in the
middle of the lake. A.D. Solo gets out and looks for help.
Finding none, Solo realizes he is stranded so he pulls
out his cell phone to call the fire department for help.
A recorded voice tells him that the number is 'out of service'.
He realizes that he has mis-dialed when he looks at the screen
of his phone and sees the word "Firewalker".
FIREWALKER
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X26-2.09
1st category is now called: "Snow TraX"
Snow Trax is the name of a separate podcast that I have.
It's all the music you hear in my Field Reports, except it's
just the music without me talking over it like your hear in my
Field Reports.
To listen to Snow TraX, just launch iTunes and search for Agent
Shadow. Then click 'subscribe'.
You'll get all the non-soundtrack music that Mark Snow wrote,
from all the episodes, as we cover them.
You'll also get remastered Field Reports from the past.
Some of my earlier Field Reports where noisy, had missing parts or
not all of Mark Snows music.
You'll also get "specials" that I make plus any future projects.
Today's clips are called:
Airlift
New Life Form
The Steam Caves
Hot Shot
Change Her Life
The Only Record
Some clips in Firewalker we've heard already.
Mark Snow used music from Lazarus, Ice and I believe
Darkness Falls.
ZERO SUM:
Firewalker completes the 1st "Shadow Trilogy"
As we go through the X-Files I'll pick 3 episodes that we've
already seen that would make a good trilogy.
Firewalker completes the:
ICE/DARKNESS FALLS/FIREWALKER TRILOGY.
Your current assignment is to Go and watch those 3 back to back.
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES:
(EPISODE INFLUENCE)
Silicon based life forms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry
MULDERIZMS:
No real good ones in Firewalker.
X-IMPACT: BY AGENT JAMES
(Impact that the episode had on the audience)
'Firewalker' James Wong was not happy about it's similarities with
'Ice' and 'Darkness Falls' saying "if the show starts to cannibalize
itself, there's gonna be trouble," and not really much of the
audiences liked it either.
MYTHOMETER:
Monster, Hybrid or MythArc
MYTHARC
STRONG HYBRID
WEAK HYBRID
MONSTER*****
Because there where no real mythology references,
although I kind of like the level 4 CDC decontamination reference -
like in Darkness Falls
THE SEQUELIZER:
[The potential the episode had for a sequel]
Firewalker had a Medium potential for a sequel because of the
silicon based life form that was still in the volcano.
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
Compared to other Monster of the Weeks I give Firewalker a 9.
Compared to ALL X-Files episodes I give it an 8
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably a 9.5
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X26-2.09
is filed: UNSOLVED
"Addendum to Field Report:
As I left the D.C. area I received a call on my cell phone:"
VOICE:
"Agent Shadow?"
Shadow:
"Yes, Who is this?"
VOICE:
"I think you should know... you have a friend... at the FBI."
*thinking*
"I hope my friend can help me find Agent Chelsea.
Agent Chelsea:
"Day 6.
I've met with one of the leaders of the New Syndicate.
The room was low-lit, so I couldn't see him very well.
He asked me many questions concerning biology, immunology, cryology
etc.
I answered his questions but I don't know where they lead to.
The Men in Black referred to him as 'The Black Horse'.
Today we are leaving for a military hospital.
The Men in Black said I need to see something.
End of Field Journal Day 6."
[CLOSING QUOTE]
MULDER:
"Scully and I are in the third day of a month-long quarantine,
undergoing level 4 decon procedures. We are so far without symptoms
of fungal contamination. All our specimens and field notes were
confiscated by the military bio-hazard corps prior to our evacuation.
Their presence has delayed for an indefinite period the arrival of
the USGS data retrieval team. I suspect, though, that there will be
little left for them to retrieve."
[X26-2.09]
============================================================
X27 GHOST IN THE MACHINE
MULDER: Thanks for coming.
DEEP THROAT: I’m here against my better judgment. In the future I
must insist that you respect the terms of our arrangement.
MULDER: I need to know why Brad Wilczek is the subject of a code
five investigation. What the Defense Department wants with him.
DEEP THROAT: What do you think they’d want with the most innovative
programmer in this hemisphere?
MULDER: Software.
DEEP THROAT: For years, Wilczek has thumbed his nose at any contract
involving weapons applications. He’s a bleeding heart.
MULDER: What kind of software?
DEEP THROAT: How much do you know about artificial intelligence?
MULDER: I thought it was only theoretical.
DEEP THROAT: It was, until two years ago. You remember Helsinki, the
first time that a chess playing computer ever beat a Grand Master?
(MULDER nods.) That was Wilczek’s program. And the rumor was that he
did it by developing the first adaptive network.
MULDER: An adaptive network?
DEEP THROAT: It’s a learning machine. A computer that actually
thinks. And it’s, ah, become something of a holy grail for some of
our more acquisitive colleagues in the Department of Defense.
***************************
Agent Donald is examining evidence on a confiscated computer,
of an advanced operating system that had become self aware.
Donald sees that there is still a CD in the CD player,
so he pushes the eject button.
The CD in the drive is a music CD of the band
'The Police'. The albums name is Synchronicity.
Donald thinks aloud...
"Why couldn't it have been Ghost in the Machine?"
Ghost in the Machine
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X27-1.07
1st category is
SNOW TRAX:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
Obviated Subpoena - Obviated Subpoena
Access Denied - Obvius Negavit
Dead Ghost - Mortuus Phasmatis
Ghost House - Phasmatis Domus
File Opened - Lima Patefacio
File Deleted - Lima Deletus
ZERO SUM:
I like how they put Deep Throat in this episode and I like the
concept of the self aware operating system, but it probably could
have been done a little better.
Also, when the COS kills Jerry in the elevator, Jerry falls to the
floor, but if the elevator was falling he would lift up towards the
elevator ceiling.
We learn that Scully's ID # is 2317-616 in this episode.
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES:
(EPISODE INFLUENCE)
Self aware computers
http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/computers%20become%20self%20aware.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
MULDERIZMS:
No good ones
MYTHOMETER:
Monster, Hybrid or MythArc
MYTHARC
STRONG HYBRID
WEAK HYBRID*****
MONSTER
THE SEQUELIZER:
[The potential the episode had for a sequel]
Ghost in the Machine had a HIGH potential for a sequel because of
the technology that the government was bargaining for with Brad
Wilczek and because they show the computer turning back on,
basically telling us that that there would be a sequel.
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
Compared to other Monster of the Weeks
I give Ghost in the Machine a 7.5
Compared to ALL X-Files episodes I give it a 7
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably an 8.5
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X27-1.07
is filed: UNSOLVED
To get Snow TraX, along with my Field Reports and other projects
just launch iTunes, search for Agent Shadow and subscribe,
and while you're there please leave a review.
Thank You."
****************************
MULDER: I checked with Congressman Klebanon and the Department of
Corrections Subcommittee. I even petitioned the Attorney General’s
office.
DEEP THROAT: You won’t find him.
MULDER: They can’t just take a man like Brad Wilczek without an
explanation.
DEEP THROAT: 'They' can do anything they want.
MULDER: Where is he?
DEEP THROAT: In the middle of what we in the trade call "hard
bargaining."
MULDER: Wilczek won’t deal. He’ll never work for them.
DEEP THROAT: Loss of freedom does funny things to a man, and
remember, Wilczek confessed to two murders, and you effectively
destroyed the only evidence that could have exonerated him.
MULDER: What else could I have done?
DEEP THROAT: Nothing... Unless you were willing to let the
technology survive.
MULDER: The Department of Defense still hasn’t found anything?
DEEP THROAT: They’ve been on it for five days. Wilczek’s virus was
thorough. It left no trace of the artificial intelligence.
The machine is dead. (Deep Throat rises and leaves)
DENY EVERYTHING
[X27-1.07]
============================================================
X28 SHADOWS
[OPEN QUOTE]
MAN: Agent Scully, Agent Mulder, Chief Blevins assures us of your
cooperation. We regret any inconvenience at this extreme hour.
WOMAN: We hope your expertise in extraordinary phenomena
will help us in our investigation.
MULDER: You're not FBI, are you?
************************************
Agent Donald is depositing his paycheck at an ATM when he sees
someones reflection on the machines screen.
He turns around but sees no one.
He turns back to the ATM and types in his deposit - 5.00
The machine asks for his password.
Donald types in: SHADOWS
Shadows
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X28-1.06
1st category is
SNOW TRAX:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
1 Today - Unus Hodie
Dark Room - Atrum Cella
They're Here - Dum Es Hic
Full Denial - Plenus Tollens
2 Tomorrows - Duos Cras
ZERO SUM:
This episode was just ok to me.
I don't know how that girl in the alley didn't see the dead guy
that was hanging right above her on the fire escape ladder.
They did do a good job on the strangling scenes though.
I also like the NSA agents, one of which they bring back later, the
guy, in 'Little Green men', but they use a different female agent in
that episode.
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES:
They didn't rip much from the headlines in this one.
MULDERIZMS:
SCULLY: I think Howard Graves faked his own death.
MULDER: Do you know how difficult it is to fake your own death?
Only one man has pulled it off, Elvis.
MYTHOMETER:
Monster, Hybrid or MythArc
MYTHARC
STRONG HYBRID
WEAK HYBRID
MONSTER*****
THE SEQUELIZER:
[The potential the episode had for a sequel]
Shadows had a MEDIUM potential for a sequel because Howard Graves is
still very dead,
but he's still out there and could protect her from future trouble.
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
Compared to other Monster of the Weeks I give Shadows a 6.5,
passable.
Compared to ALL X-Files episodes I give it a 4, below average.
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably a 7, more watchable than
a lot of shows.
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X28-1.05
is filed: UNSOLVED
[CLOSE QUOTE]
WOMAN: You've seriously compromised our investigation.
MULDER: We were following leads pertaining to an X File.
MAN: I want to know every detail of your activities concerning this
case.
SCULLY: What case? You're the ones who've been withholding
information. (They all fall silent.)
MULDER: Then we have nothing more to talk about.
(Mulder and Scully walk away. The woman and man follow them to the hallway.)
WOMAN: We believe HTG Technologies was selling restricted parts to
the Isfahan. Partial serial numbers from their manifest were recovered
in the wreckage of a July bombing of a Navy transport van.
MULDER: How's Lauren Kyte involved?
MAN: We don't quite know. Your actions impeded our investigation.
WOMAN: In any case, we don't have enough evidence to hold her.
If she doesn't talk, she goes free and we lose our chance to break this
company.
MAN: I could make her talk.
MULDER: My advise to you... Don't get rough with her.
DENY EVERYTHING
[X28-1.06]
============================================================
X29-1.05 THE JERSEY DEVIL
[OPEN QUOTE]
SCULLY: An X-File?
MULDER: Ever hear of something called The Jersey Devil?
SCULLY: Yeah, it's a beast that's supposed to come out of the woods and attack cars, right. Kind of like an East Coast Bigfoot.
MULDER: Read the file about the case in 1947.
SCULLY: Save me the trouble.
MULDER: 1947, family watches dad get dragged off into the woods, cops find dad with a few appendages gnawed off. Cops corner a large naked man in the woods and gun him down. Autopsy shows human flesh and bones in the man's large intestine. A beast man. Requisition for a car please.
SCULLY: Is the autopsy report in here?
MULDER: No, the original disappeared from the Patterson PD's files a few years after the incident. But there is a statement from the attending pathologist.
SCULLY: Mulder it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid. It's a folk tale, a myth.
MULDER: I heard the same story when I was a kid too, funny thing is, I believed it. Thanks Doreen. Fact is, we got a cannibalized body in New Jersey, someone or something out there is hungry.
**********************************
Agent Chelsea is at her Godsons birthday party when the doorbell
rings. She answers the door and the man at the door hands her a folder with an X on it.
She opens the folder.
It reads:
THE JERSEY DEVIL
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X29-1.05
1st category is
SNOW TRAX:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
DEVILS FOOD - DÆMONIBUS ALIMENTUM
FINGER WALKER - DIGITUS PEDES
ROADSIDE SERVICE - SECUS VIAM APPARITURA
SHE-DEVIL - EA SATAN
WELCOME TO NEW JERSEY - SALUTATIO IN NEW JERSEY
To get these Snow TraX without me talking over them,
plus other projects, just launch iTunes and subcribe to
Agent Shadows Field Reports.
ZERO SUM:
In the autopsy report on "Jane Doe", the name of the coroner is K.H.Hawryliw who is the prop master on the show.
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES:
Episode Influence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil
MULDERIZMS:
In response to the angry sheriffs question as to why Mulder is there:
Mulder:
"Enjoying the nightlife here in beautiful Atlantic City.
MYTHOMETER:
Monster, Hybrid or MythArc
MONSTER
THE SEQUELIZER:
The potential the episode had for a sequel
THE JERSEY DEVIL had a HIGH potential for a sequel because of the last scene when it shows a young Jersey Devil offspring hiding in the woods,
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
Compared to other Monster of the Weeks,
I give THE JERSEY DEVIL 7
Compared to ALL X-Files episodes I give it a 6
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably an 8.5
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X29-1.05
is filed: OPEN
[CLOSE QUOTE]
BOY: Dad, did you just see something down there?
DAD: Where?
BOY: Over there.
DAD: Naah, I'm sure it was nothing.
BOY: No, I saw something.
DAD: Hey, did you ever hear the story of the Jersey Devil?
You know when I was a kid, my dad used to tell this story
about a creature who lived out down the woods...
DENY EVERYTHING
X
Denego panton
============================================================
X7 ICE ***** (REMASTERED AND COPIED FROM EARLIER POST) *****
Agent Donald and Agent Chelsea are in their basement office talking about the movie 'The Thing', when Donald get a phone call from a man telling them to meet him in the FBI parking garage.
Donald and Chelsea go down to the garage but all the overhead lights are out. They can hardly see a thing. At that moment they hear a voice from the darkness behind them saying "Don't turn around".
Something is slipped into Donald's trench coat.
The voice says: "This is urgent".
After a moment, the lights come back on and the man is gone.
Donald looks in his coat and finds a strange envelope marked only with an X.
Donald opens it. It's a highly classified document telling of a cover-up operation that will soon be launched to destroy all evidence of the Arctic Ice Core Project.
The report mentions that there are also samples of alien life there
that will also be destroyed.
The Agents act quickly.
They mobilize the RXF Quick Response Team to get to the
Arctic Ice Core Project immediately.
They come from all corners of the globe.
Australian Agents Adelle and Jasper are taken off their case of "Black-eyed people", to help out.
Ireland's 2 Agents, Lauren and Sarah join in - leaving their "Potato Famine conspiracy" case.
Amanda and Tara from Texas are taken off the "Shamrock case".
Vancouver Agent John Bailey is joined by Agent Danielle from the Netherlands Field Office.
And of course Agent Super Spandex who is on a stake-out on a roof-top in Tel Aviv is called in.
The large RXF team enters the deserted Arctic Ice Core Project.
They search the building for any evidence that could prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, before the 'cleaning' team arrives.
Then, Agent Super Spandex calls out:
"Over here!"
The Agents run over to see what Spandex has found.
He's looking at a block of ice in the freezer with something encased in it.
Spandex: "Looks like a folder... with a plus sign on it!"
Donald: "Spandex, that's an 'X'.
Chelsea: "Well, are we going to have a spelling bee or are we going to open it?"
The Agents chip away at the block until they get to the folder.
They open it up. It reads:
===== I C E =====
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X7-1.08
ZERO SUM
This episode is one of the best overall episodes of the whole series,
and maybe the very best 'monster of the week' of the 9 seasons.
The sense of isolation is portrayed very well.
The mystery of who is infected, and how, is riveting.
Again, Mark Snow nails the mood with very eerie sounds and music.
The actors do a great job of portraying the fear and paranoia that would be present.
The choice of actors is right on the money, with the differences
in their personalities adding to the plot line.
Also, Bear is one of my favorite guest stars in the whole series.
One observation: Why is there no snow in northern Alaska, even after a major blizzard that hit just north of them in Ice Bay?
(I know, they're really in Vancouver)
This episode is a kind of tribute to the movie 'The Thing'
by John Carpenter, which is also a remake of
'The Thing From Another World' by Christian Nyby.
This was influenced by 'Who Goes There?', by John W.Campbell.
One of the team members in the episode is named Campbell,
an homage to the author.
The shots of the Arctic Ice Core Project building are taken directly from the movie 'The Thing'.
This takes nothing away from the episode.
It truly is a 'classic'.
If you want to 'relive' ICE, watch 'The Thing', with Kurt Russell.
You'll love it!
One little thing happened that I was curious about.
The "We're not who we are" speech always seemed different
the second time we hear it - when Mulder and Scully are reviewing the video tape. So I recorded it both times it's played and I overlapped them to see if they match. They don't.
I'll play them in a moment.
They do sound similar at first but they change significantly as the clip plays out.
It's not a big deal but I don't know why the producers would use 2 different clips for, what's supposed to be,
a recording of the same speech. Wouldn't it have been much easier
and more accurate to just use the same sound byte?
Here's the 2 clips overlapped:
[We're 'really' not who we are]
MULDERIZMS:
When the team has to check each other for spots.
(Mulder, Murphy and Hodge all start to undress in a room.)
MULDER: "Before anyone passes judgment,
may I remind you, we are in the Arctic."
SNOW TRAX:
(ICE is the 1st Field Report where I had SNOW MACHINE:
now Snow TraX)
I mention Mark Snows music in every Field Report
so I thought I would make a category for him.
I will play clips of his tracks that didn't make it to the sound track
in the back ground.
To hear all the Snow TraX without me talking over them, plus other specials, just subscribe to 'Agent Shadows Field Reports' at iTunes.
Todays Snow TraX are:
ARCTIC ICE CORE PROJECT
ASLEEP AT THE MICROSCOPE
BLACK NODULES
LEAVE IT THERE
ON ICE
MYTHOMETER:
3 = FULL MYTHOLOGY
2 = STRONG HYBRID
1 = WEEK HYBRID*****
0 = MONSTER OF THE WEEK
I give ICE a 1 out of 3 on the MYTHOMETER.
REASON:
1/2 a point for the alien worm, because it's alien,
but not part of the 'Alien conspiracy'
1/2 a point for the Government cover-up, for destroying the AICP base (brief mention)
MY 1-10 RATING:
I give ICE a 10.
This is a great episode
The Sequelizer
[The potential the episode had for a sequel]
ICE had a HIGH potential for a sequel.
You had the potential for the Government to NOT destroy the AICP,
and continue the project secretly.
Maybe they could find more life forms up there - who knows.
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X7-1.08 is filed
UNSOLVED
============================================================
X30-1.04 CONDUIT
[OPEN QUOTE]
DARLENE MORRIS: You know, I've told this story so many times now,
oh to the newspapers and the police. And every time I tell it, people
get this, look in their eye, just like the look that you've got right now.
*******************
Agent Donald is looking at a group of sheets of paper filled
with binary code and layed out on the floor in a large square.
He can't figure out what it means.
Agent Chelsea calls Donald up to the stairs above where she is.
They both look back down at the sheets of paper in awe.
The sheets spell out the word 'CONDUIT'.
CONDUIT
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X30-1.04
1st category is
SNOW TRAX:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
Today's Snow TraX are called:
RUBY
NOT A WEATHER BALLOON
A MEMORY
BLACK ROOF
THE BIGGER PICTURE
FOLLOW ME
THE WHITE WOLVES
To get these Snow TraX without me talking over them,
plus other projects, just launch iTunes and subscribe to
Agent Shadows Field Reports.
ZERO SUM:
X-achusetts:
Massachusetts is referenced again here when the A.D. hands
Scully an X-File on Mulders sister Samantha.
The address listed is 2790 Vine st. Chilmarc Ma.
Chilmark is spelled wrong - it ends with a 'K', not a 'C'.
There is no Vine st in Chilmark, but I love it when they
show us the actual X-Files on the cases.
I think they should use me for Massachusetts references
for the next movie :)
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES:
Episode Influence
http://www.ufocasebook.com/alienabductions.html
at:
AGENTSHADOWX.BLOGSPOT.COM
MULDERIZMS:
No good one that I could remember.
MYTHOMETER:
Monster, Hybrid or MythArc
MYTHARC
STRONG HYBRID
WEAK HYBRID*****
MONSTER
Conduit is a weak hybrid because of Ruby's abduction.
THE SEQUELIZER:
The potential the episode had for a sequel
Conduit had a MEDIUM potential for a sequel because Ruby could
change her mind and talk about her abduction or she could be
abducted again.
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
Compared to other Monster of the Weeks, I give Conduit a 6.5 - passable
Compared to ALL X-Files episodes I give it a 4 - a little below average
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably an 8.5
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X30-1.04
is filed: OPEN
"If you'd like to read this report yourself,
go to: AGENTSHADOWX.BLOGSPOT.COM
or:
MYSPACE.COM/AGENTSHADOWX
or:
XFILESPODCAST.COM,
and click on Agent Shadows Field Reports.
[CLOSE QUOTE]
MULDER: Whatta you doing?
Are you making something?
Can I take a look at it?
Thanks.
KEVIN MORRIS: It's coming from there.
MULDER: The TV?
*****************
I want to believe
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