Summary
Things go south quickly in the second half of my favourite mythology two-parter. Picking up where things left off last hour, DD gets to throw GA around (and didn't he look coldly menacing as he did so??) as Scully is taken captive by ABH-as-Mulder. He wants to make a deal with the real Mulder to exchange her for Samantha. What an awful choice for Mulder to make. And yet, with Samantha's blessing, he makes the trade and lives to see his "sister" plunge into the cold depths of a raging river. After another angsty moment with Dad and revelation of the "truth" (?) at the abortion clinic, we can imagine that Mulder is quickly unravelling. On some level, he is willing to die just so that he can know the truth about his sister, as shown by that desperate scene with the ABH. Great stuff all around here, from Scully refusing to be left behind by her agonized partner (even through one of their most vehement disagreements) to Skinner stepping up to the plate to help out his agents (and suffering quite a beating to achieve it).
Best or Worst Moment
"I found something I thought I'd lost..." I anticipated Mulder's next words correctly ("...faith to keep looking") when I first saw this episode because to me, that faith defines his character. And as I'll keep saying whenever the topic turns to how TXF unfolded in its later seasons, I so wanted that faith to be rewarded. All these people who ever told Mulder his sister was alive were just consistently lying, right? (By the way, runner-up for best moment happened just a few seconds before that statement. The big grin that Scully gives him upon his awakening was almost blinding in its brilliance.)
Original Rating: * * * *
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