Alone
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| Series: | The X-Files |
| Original Airdate: | 05-06-01 |
| Production Number: | 8ABX19 |
| Date(s): | 2001 |
| Written by: | Frank Spotnitz |
| Directed by: | Frank Spotnitz |
With Scully on maternity leave, Doggett is assigned an inexperienced new partner who is obsessed with the X-files. Together, they are trapped in an underground tunnel by a creature that can assume a human appearance and uses snake venom to blind its victims.
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[edit] Summary
In Ellicott, New York, Arlen and Gary Sacks is killed by an unknown creature, which sprays venom on his victims. In the meantime, at the FBI headquarters, Dana Scully packs up her belongings at the X-Files office. Among her various keepsakes, she finds a medallion commemorating the Apollo 11 space flight. Scully John Doggett the medallion, explaining that it symbolises teamwork. Scully than leaves the office, and Special Agent Leyla Harrison turns up. She tells Doggett that she is his new partner. They are to investigate a murder in upstate New York City.
Doggett and Harrison make their way to the crime scene, where they search for clues. Doggett finds some sort of slime which is sent to an FBI lab for analysis. Harrison than explains to him that she processed Fox Mulder and Scully's travel expenses during their time on the X-Files, as a result she knowns everything about the X-Files.
Doggett follows a wooded trail away from the crime scene to an upscale mansion. Making his way inside, unknown to him, the strange creature is clinging to a wall, observing what he's doing. Sensing something is wrong, Doggett pulls out his gun and instructs Harrison to stand by the door while he flushes the creature out. Harrison is sent outside, she hears a noise directly above her and opens fire. Doggett rushes onto the front lawn, where he falls through a trap door.
From an autopsy, Scully discovers that Arlen was blinded by a kind of reptile venom. In the cave Doggett and Harrison fell into, the creature sprays them with venom in their eyes, causing blindness. Close to the two agents, they find Gary Sacks in need of medical attention.
Mulder searches the area around the mansion for clues and encounters the owner, Herman Stites, who identifies himself as a biologist. He leaves the area after finding no evidence to back up his claims. Mulder returns to the FBI, telling Scully that he found the Apollo medallion near Stites' estate, and is convinced Doggett is somewhere nearby.
Again, Mulder returns to the area were Doggett and Harrison went missing. This time he spots the creature and chases it to the mansion where it climbs up to a second floor. Mulder bangs on the front door, until Stites opens the door. Mulder warns Stites that the monster is in his house. Stites lurs Mulder into the catacombs, where Harrison and Doggett are kept. Mulder goes in, without realising that Stites has locked the door. Mulder than finds Doggett. He begs the still-blinded Doggett to open fire. Doggett hesitates, saying that he can't see. But shoots blindedly and hits the monster, which in turn turns into Stites.
[edit] Background Information
- Before it was televised, this episode was also known as "The Dream Whose Sleep...".
- A book entitled The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life appears in this episode. The name is a reference to the Season 7 episodes "The Sixth Extinction" and "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati".
- This episode marks the first appearance of Leyla Harrison, who would later return in Season 9's "Scary Monsters".
- Leyla Harrison was created and named in memory of an X-Files fan and writer of X-Files internet fanfiction of the same name, who tragically died on February 10, 2001 due to skin cancer.
- Like many fans of the series, Agent Harrison is full of information about the X-Files and makes references to several cases that Mulder and Scully worked on. These include a liver-eating mutant that produced bile and died under an escalator (Eugene Victor Tooms, who was killed in "Tooms" and first appeared in "Squeeze"), aliens that shed their skin and leave behind a residue similar to mucus (from "The Beginning") and subterranean men in Florida who took people underground (seen in "Detour"). In the episode's final scene, Harrison asks Mulder how he and Scully managed to return to America after escaping from a spaceship in Antarctica (an event that took place in The X-Files Movie).
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[edit] Guest Stars
- Jay Caputo as Salamander Man
- Zach Grenier as Dr. Herman Stites
- Jolie Jenkins as FBI Agent Leyla Harrison
- Lisa Kaseman as Pathology Assistant
- Tony Ketcham as Gary Sacks
- James Otis as Arlen Sacks
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