monster of the week project

Mulder? What's Going On?  (The Plot) [Turns out it's unreasonably dangerous to search anything related to the term "deep throat" on public wi-fi in Panera, even in FamilySafe mode, so more pictures will be added when I have privacy. Whoopsie.] When the episode begins we're in Idaho, watching as a military SWAT team breaks into a home to find the Victim of the Week huddled in a corner, covered in red welts. Back in Washington DC, Mulder runs into a spooky guy in the bathroom who tells him to stop poking his nose into things. Turns out our VotW was a test pilot, and after the SWAT team incident he never returned. His wife reported this as a kidnapping, which is why the FBI got wind of it. Mulder and Scully head to Idaho to investigate. They interview the wife and meet another test pilot who reappeared after similar circumstances and is now behaving strangely. No one wants to talk to them, except a journalist, but they don't want to talk to him....

Mulder? What's Going On? (The plot) The episode starts with a notice that this story is "inspired by" true events. We open to a red-headed woman running through the woods. Spooky stuff happens -- bright lights! strange noises! The woman is identified as being part of the class of 1989. She's got two weird little dots on her lower back. "It's happening again, isn't it?" the local detective on the case intones. Behold, children! An ancient technology! Now we're in the FBI headquarters. Everything is very busy and very nineties. Nineties phones! Nineties power suit! Nineties computers! Dana Scully, bright young medical doctor with a physics background, is being tasked with babysitting self-described "FBI's most unwanted", Fox "Spooky" Mulder. Mulder, an Oxford-educated criminal profiler, has become obsessed with "The X-Files", unexplained cases that come across the FBI's metaphorical desk...