Redux

"Scully's determination to find proof within herself was an excellent example of her character, and Gillian Anderson played it exquisitely."

-Kristin P.-



On Sunday, November 2, 1997, the fifth season premire, "Redux", aired. It is the second portion of a trilogy, which began with the fourth season finale, "Gethsemane", and ends with next week's "Redux II". This episode of The X-Files is the first episode of the fifth season.

Scully
The fifth season premire, "Redux", explains the events that took place in the episode "Gethsemane" to an extent. In the episode there are many truths revealed about the two agents, the F.B.I., and the military. In the beginning, Mulder discovers that his apartment has been under survalence for months by a man who worked for the Department of Defense (DOD). It was this man, Ostelhoff, whose dead body was purposely misidentified as Agent Mulder's. Throughout the episode, Scully and Mulder have to work to find the truth and who within the F.B.I. can't be trusted. At the DOD, Kritschgau explains to Mulder, who is posing as Ostelhoff, how there is no such thing as aliens and alien abductions. He explains to Mulder how the military created the rumors to hide and take attention away from what the military was actually involved with. The military were the ones who abducted the women to run tests to create biological weapons. Meanwhile, Scully and Dr. Vitaliano run tests on the organism found within the ice core sample. Scully matches the viral DNA from the organism to her own DNA, proving that the men behind the hoax were the ones who gave her cancer. While Scully is presenting this scientific evidence to the F.B.I. Panel, her nose starts to bleed and the seriousness of her cancer does not allow her to finish the interrogation. Mulder, at a secret 'warehouse' in the Pentagon, finds a small container labeled with the same number that was on Scully's 'card' which he had also found there. He takes this container, hoping that somehow it hows the cure to his partner's cancer, to the three Lone Gunmen. They analyze the contents of the container only to discover that it is deionized water.

Below, are a few quotes from the episode and the ratings submitted by XFEOS members. They are followed with the comments and opinions on "Redux".


Mulder to Kritschgau: "Did they give Agent Scully this disease? Did they do this to her because of me?"

Scully starts to undress in her bedroom, thinking she's alone.
Mulder: "Keep going F.B.I. woman."
Scully: "Mulder, what are you doing? Why are you sitting in my bedroom in the dark?
Mulder: "It was too crowded in my apartment, I couldn't sleep."
Scully: "I'm not kidding, Mulder."
Mulder: "Neither am I. There's a dead man on the floor of my apartment and it's only a matter of time before he starts to stink the place up."

Mulder: "This man Ostelhoff worked for the military. Are you beginning to get the picture, do you see what's happening here?"
Scully: "That the hoax is connected to the military, just like Kritschgau said it was."
Scully & Vitaliano
Mulder: "This hoax, your cancer, everything. It just doesn't lead back to the military, it leads right back to the F.B.I. "
Scully: "What?!?"

Scully to Mulder: "That would mean that for four years, we were nothing more than pawns in a game, that it was a lie from the beginning. Mulder, these men, you give them your faith and your supposed to trust them with your life."

Mulder to Scully: "As they lie to us, we can lie to them. A lie to find the truth."

Mulder to Kritschgau: "Level 4 clearence, that means I get to dine at the officers club?"

Kritschgau: "What you may find is so much more than [who gave Scully her cancer]."
Mulder: "What?"
Kritschgau: "What you want most desprately of all."
Mulder: "The cure for Scully's cancer."

Cigarette Smoking Man: "I have always kept Mulder in check. I put this whole thing together, I created him."

Scully: "I need to do a southern blot, to run the culture you showed me against my own DNA. You said that the unclassified cells you looked at under the EM were full of virus."
Dr. Vitaliano: "Right. What are you looking for?"
Scully: "A match. ... It's got to happen, everything in my life depends on it."

Skinner: "And what about your lie, Agent Scully, what doest it lead to?"
Scully: "The truth. About the men behind what happened to me, about my abduction and the tests, about being exposed to something against my will, about being put on a table and having something inplanted in me, and then having my memories stolen, only to have them return with a disease that I was given."

Scully to Skinner: "You're going to use that against me aren't you? You're going to use me as I have been used all along, to preserve the lies."

Scully: "Proof extracted from this tiny organism can blow open a conspiracy of global consequence."
Mulder

Scully: "My DNA hybridized with the viral DNA from the cell culture."
Dr. Vitaliano: "But that means the material from the ice core sample, you'd have to have DNA from the unclassified chimara cell in your own body."
Scully: "I know."
Dr. Vitaliano: "But how? And how did you know?"
Scully: "I believe that I was exposed to this material and that it is responsible for giving me a serious illness."
Dr. Vitaliano: "What kind of illness?"
Scully: "One which cannot be cured."

Mulder: "I was depending on Scully to weave her story, to tell her tale to make them believe the lie."

Scully to F.B.I. Panel: "But I have proof, against the men behind this, of the lies that I believed. What I have here is proof undeniable that the men who gave me this disease were also behind the hoax. A plot designed to lead to Agent Mulder's demise and to my own. Planned and executed by someone in this room. What I have here is scientific evidence" Scully's nose starts to bleed and then she falls down into her chair. She wispers to Skinner "You"

Mulder: "What, what is it?"
Byers: "It's deionized water, nothing more than that."


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