Summary
For as much as this episode is generally considered to be "below grade", I found it interesting that the writer — Jeffrey Vlaming, who also wrote 2Shy — took a chance at exploring cultural myths and institutions. (In particular, the show's Vancouver ties at the time made the San Francisco Chinatown sequences easy to portray.) It may not have been all it could have been — and some opinions have stated that it's not much of an x-file — but it was a fascinating look at something that's not completely inconceivable. In the Chinese culture, most everything can be bought and sold. And hey — did you notice that guest appearance by a pre-glam Lucy Liu??
Best or Worst Moment
Not really an episode known for stand-out moments, although the frog thing gave me a bit of a jolt when I originally saw it. Maybe I'll go back to some famous Mulder/Scully dialogue... when she asks him if he has any idea how much a human body is worth, he retorts that it "depends on the body". So Mulder.
Original Rating: * *
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