Blood (episode)
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| Series: | The X-Files |
| Original Airdate: | 9-30-94 |
| Production Number: | 2x03 |
| Date(s): | Unknown |
| Story by: | Darin Morgan |
| Teleplay by: | Glen Morgan & James Wong |
| Directed by: | David Nutter |
Apparently prompted by messages from digital appliances with instructions to kill, several residents of a small farming community suddenly turn violent and dangerous.
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[edit] Summary
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[edit] Background Information
- The address on the envelope right before the first digital messages are shown to Edward Funsch is in Grand Rapids, MI, where Scully actress Gillian Anderson went to City High School.
- Mrs. McRoberts, the woman who kills the mechanic, was played by porn star Kimberly Ashlyn Gere. She is credited under the name Kimberly Patton.
- The nurse buzzing on the door was buzzing the word 'Kill' in Morse code.
- The scene in which Edward Funsch climbs the campus tower for his shootings is based on an actual incident. On 1 August 1966, Charles Whitman went to the observation deck on the 27th floor of the clock tower on the University of Texas - Austin campus and began a 92-minute shooting spree leaving 16 dead and many wounded, ending when Whitman was shot by police. That incident and nine other deaths, seven of them suicides, led to the deck's closing in 1974. After installing heavy security and safety measures, the observation platform was reopened in 1999.
[edit] Nitpicks
- Some of the subliminal messages would have taken an almost impossible amount of effort to arrange. Altering a wristwatch or microwave so that it can send a message at the right time would require completely rebuilding it. The level of planning and observation required to set up some of the messages would also be difficult to achieve, and it all adds up to mean that you can kill someone indirectly with a huge amount of work. Why would anyone bother? Note that in the autopsy of Mrs. McRoberts, Scully reports finding traces of a compound containing lysergic acid (the active component of LSD). This allows for a reasonable supposition that the messages "delivered" by the electronic displays were the result of hallucinations, not reprogramming or rebuilding. Lingering effects from Mulder's exposure to the LSDM could also explain his seeing the message on his phone at the end (although this could have been an ordinary text message). It's interesting to note that of all the different forms of LSD that have been created, only one has been shown to be psychoactive.
- In the investigation scene following the mechanics murder, Mulder is wearing rubber gloves but when he scans his finger down the clipboard, his hand is bare.
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[edit] Guest Stars
- Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike
- Dean Haglund as Richard Langly
- Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers
- John Cygan as Sheriff Spencer
- Kathleen Duborg as Mother
- David Fredericks as Security Guard
- John Harris as Mr. Taber
- B.J. Harrison as Clerk
- William Mackenzie as Bus Driver
- Ashlyn Gere as Bonnie McRoberts
- Gerry Rousseau as Mechanic
- William Sanderson as Edward Funsch
- Diana Stevan as Mrs. Adams
- George Touliatos as Larry Winter
[edit] References
Franklin; Pennsylvania; digital display; adrenal glands; adrenaline; LSD; LSDM; subliminal message
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