So, you thought I wasn't obsessed enough? You were wrong! This is an in-depth analysis of the 100th episode of The X-Files, "Redux II." Here are all the cool quotes, all the best scenes, and just everything you want to commit to memory from the best show ever! In the second-to-the-smallest font, this page prints into four pages or so. If I (gasp) missed anything, do email me.

Teaser

Mulder enters hospital

• medical workers are callous dorks, is that it?
  
• Mulder's voice breaks
  
• MulderQuote- Skinner: "You look pretty good for a dead man." Mulder: "I'm only half dead."
  
• *tingly moment!* as camera fades to intro

Section Chief Blevins's office

• take note of Blevins and his sidekick; Mulder is silent
  
• Skinner goes after Mulder
  
• FriendQuote- Skinner: "Word of advice from a friend..."
  
• Skinner says he's been withholding evidence
  
• Quotable- Skinner: "You want to lay it where it belongs, Agent Mulder?"
  
• Mulder tells Skinner about the mole
  
• FrameThisQuote- "Remember who your friends are, Agent Mulder. Remember who you can trust."

  at the racetrack
  

• Fat Man watches hearings on human cloning
  
• CSM approaches him with idea for deal
  
• Fat Man dispatches sniper

  The hospital
  

• Scully wakes up to *yikes* goofy-grinned Mulder
  
• Kiss #1
  
• MulderQuote: "It's okay, I'm officially among the undead."
  
• *tingly moments!*
  
• FrameThisQuote- Scully: "Well then you have to lay it on me.... Mulder if I can save you, let me."
  
• Kiss #2.
  
• Family enters
  
• Quote- Bill Scully: "Let her die with dignity." (Mulder looks burned) Fade to black.
  
• The stairwell. The sniper. Fade to black.
  
• MulderQuote- "Please tell me you're here with severe chest pains."
  
• CSM asks Mulder to step outside
  
• FriendQuote- CSM: "I'm here tonight as a friend, Agent Mulder."

Act II

The secret of the deionized water

• Do you realize what this means??? Mulder willingly consorted with CSM! (Remember "Wetwired" when Scully was brainwashed and saw Mulder laughing with CSM? It's the father theme again.)
  
• Scully developed cancer after microchip was removed
  
• Mulder / Lone Gunmen Quote- Frohike: "Too freakin' amazing." Mulder: "Watch your language Frohike, and grab me some tweezers."

  Review board
  

• Kritschgau comes in, tightlipped. Skinner watches him like a hawk.
  
• Blevins looks at his sidekick, who then asks a question.
  
• DejaQuote- MK: "conspiracy against the American people."
  
• Kritschgau's son has died.
  
• sidekick asks for employment; congressional lobbying firm called "roush"
  
• MK has no idea what that is, and Skinner takes notes
  
• So why did the sidekick ask the employment question? Was Blevins a patsy from the beginning?

  Bedside confrontation
  

• Mulder and Bill throw daggers
  
• ScullyQuote: "You don't have all the facts."
  
• Scully makes her decision

  Stairwell
  

• switch to black; laser sights glow; watch says 10:30; fade to black

  Hospital hallway
  

• Bill talks to the sorry son-of-a-bitch (remember "Mulder, you're not a loser" a la Eddie van Blundht?)
  
• retelling- how family tragedy unfolds
  
• Bill Scully picks up on Dana's fatherly identification with Mulder (remember the scene in "Never Again," when she was telling the tattoo guy how paternal Mulder was to her?)
  
• ReferenceQuote- Mulder: "I lost a sister. I lost my father. All because of this thing I'm looking for." Bill: "Little green aliens?" Mulder finally says: "Little green aliens." (reference to "Little Green Men")
  
• One sorry son of a bitch answers the phone (reminiscent of Scully's frequent calls); sounds beaten
  
• CSM arranges a meeting

  Diner with Pink Tiles
  

• Quotable- Waitress: "Tabasco, cures anything." Mulder: "I'll keep that in mind."
  
• The good old "headlight in the eyes / truth" theme
  
• neon clock says 9:32
  
• Samantha!!! looking pensive
  
• Memorable Exchange- "Samantha?" "I was afraid I'd never see you again. He always told me something had happened to you that night." "Who? Who told you that?" "My father." CSM lights up. Mulder looks like he's thinking EEEEYYY
  

Act III

• 10:13 p.m. (production company!)
  People's Exhibit (remember the cloned Sams)- Samantha talks:
  
• "I tried more to forget." (contrast with Mulder)
  
• "He was the only one I remember from before what happened." (proof of CSM's contact with the Mulders?)
  
• The abduction- "I remember you... I remember something men and then nothing..."
  
• Samantha: "That you'd been... looking for me for a long time. Is that true?" Mulder starts to get teary-eyed. Mulder: "What you've been told by that man may not be true."
  
• "He cared for me when there was no one else."
  
• "Mom is alive?" (What has dad been telling her?)
  
• "I have children of my own..."(whoa!)
  
• "Please don't, Fox. (reference to Stratego scene from old flashbacks, when young Mulder acts like a jerky older brother)... Please, please let me go."
  
• *tingly moment!* Mulder lets go.
  
• Mulder looks at her go with hope in his eyes. She gets in the car; CSM comforts her and Mulder looks like he's lost everything.

  PET scan; miracles
  

• Quote- The doctor (Zuckerman?): "Maybe they are miracles, but I don't dare call them that."

  Next day on street outside CSM's building
  

• Target on Mulder
  Target on CSM
  
• Quote- CSM: "No act is completely selfless."
  
• How much has Mulder really seen? Quote- CSM: "This man, Michael Kritschgau, has deceived you with beautiful lies."
  
• My head hurts! Are there extraterrestrials or not? Remember the shapeshifting alien hit-man, whom CSM associated with.
  
• FaustianQuote- "Quit the FBI. Come work for me. I can make the problems go away."
  
• Music stops. Mulder decides.
  
• Memorable Exchange- Mulder: "I don't care whose father you are. I will put you down." CSM: "Well, you're certainly capable, or so I've been told. I understand you have a hearing tomorrow where you'll have to testify to these murderous impulses of yours." (references to Mulder beating up Krycek, framed for his dad's murder, plus relentless searching-for-father theme)

  Scully's hospital bed
  

• Scully and her mom
  *tissue moments!*
  
• FrameThisQuote- Scully: "I've come so far in my life on simple faith. And now when I need it the most I just push it away."

  Fat man watches cloning hearings
  

• Quote- Congressman: "Human cloning will take place and it‘ll take place in my lifetime."
  
• Quote- Fat Man: "He's [Skinner] gathering information for who? Our colleague was supposed to have fixed the FBI problem. You will fix it now, do you understand me? Then I will fix it for good." (Whoa baby! Why is the Syndicate so interested in these hearings? Who sent Skinner to watch, a la Forrest Gump? What's the "FBI problem": Skinner, CSM, Blevins, all or none of the above?)

• *tissue moment!*
  Mulder cries on Scully's bedside (Mulder, don't bite her!)

Act IV

Blevins calls Mulder in; he looks bushed

• ballistic data comes in from undisclosed source (Did Skinner blab?)
  
• Skinner working inside the FBI with a secret agenda (???)
  
• FriendQuote- Mulder: "Name Skinner and save myself." Blevins: "That's what I called you here to recommend. As a friend."
  
• Mulder looks down. Decides.
  
• Door close.

• Door open.
  Goes straight to Scully
  
• Mulder just can't resist not telling Scully anything! At least answer one of her questions!
  
• FrameThisQuote: Mulder: "I was lost last night. But as I stood here, I thought I'd found my way."
  Mulder gets a heart!
  
• FaustianQuote- "If I name him they'll protect me."
  
• "I can't let you take the blame."
  
• FrameThisQuote- "Live the lie, you have to believe it, like these men who deceive us."
  
• FrameThisQuote- "We all have our faith, and mine is in the truth."
  
• Memorable Exchange- Scully: "Why did you come here if you'd already made up your mind?" Mulder: "Because I knew you'd talk me out of it if I was making a mistake." *tingly moment!*
  
• Priest comes in
  
• MulderMumble: "Have the father say a few Hail Mulders for me, okay?" (Thanks, Brad.)

  Review Board
  

• Doh! Mulder shows up
  
• Skinner looks nervous
  Calls for a short break
  
• Blevins exchanges looks w/ sidekick
  
• Skinner looks very nervous
  
• DejaQuote- Mulder: "a conspiracy against the American people"
  
• sniper target "men who pretend to honor as they deceive"
  
• Skinner looks very very nervous
  
• The Jump Cuts
  priest doing rosary at Scully's bedside
  sidekick asks / Mulder: "I will answer that question" / Blevins / Mulder answers same / sidekick asks / same / sidekick / same / CSM / picture of Mulder & Sam / sniper / sidekick / Mulder / sidekick / Mulder names the section chief / gasp!
  Mulder looks like ‘damn, I'm the man‘ / CSM looks down on red dot / sniper fires / Blevins comes into room, agitated / sidekick hangs up phone and shoots him / CSM drags picture closer to him / fade to black

  high noon at hospital
  

• no body was found; too much blood loss for CSM to have survived (Is he dead?)
  
• Quote- Skinner: "How did you know it was Blevins?" Mulder: "I didn't, I just guessed."
  
• Blevins been on payroll to biotech company named Roush
  
• cancer in remission- Mulder grins goofy again
  
• Skinner's eyebrow lifts at the news
  
• Dana looks happy to see the boss, yeah right; she attempts a weak grimace
  
• *tingly moment* Mulder melts at the picture; bites his lip

Next week: Why is a detective from another network tracking down space aliens?

Whew! What did we learn from all this? Well, supposedly Cigarette-Smoking Man, the supposed biological father of Samantha Mulder, is dead. Mrs. Mulder (damnit, what's her first name!!??) may have had an affair with CSM and produced Sam and/or Fox. Samantha Mulder herself may still be a brainwashed clone (or just a great actress: if our Scully could weep over an undead Mulder... well, no, maybe she was weeping over the fact he was still alive ;-p) If she is Samantha, she's got her own life now and Mulder's obsession may have been cooled by the *truth*.
The question posed in "Gethsemane" and "Redux" is even more ambiguous: we have enough information to support a hoax, and a hoax-within-a-hoax, and extraterrestrial life (none of the above options being exclusive to each other.) With CSM gone, the Syndicate and Fat Man may not be so forgiving of Mulder and Scully. Skinner may or may not be working for someone else with a secret agenda, as implied by Fat Man's agitated phone call. Cloning has been going on for years (see "Colony," "End Game," & "Herrenvolk"), though Congress is just now catching on. A new biochemical angle has entered the arena, going by the name of "Roush." Scully's cancer is in remission. Tabasco sauce cures everything. And last but not least, Fox Mulder's devotion has turned from his estranged sister to his deserving partner, Dana Scully. Are there cherry bombs, a la Moonlighting, in the works? Two kisses in one episode, remember! The mind boggles.

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