Memento Mori
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| Series: | The X-Files |
| Original Airdate: | 2-9-1997 |
| Production Number: | 4x15 |
| Date(s): | FICTIONAL YEAR OR DATE(S) OF EVENTS IN EPISODE |
| Written by: | Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz |
| Directed by: | Rob Bowman |
Scully begins to come to terms with the fact that she has cancer, but her friends and allies begin fighting to save her life, even if it means making a deal with the devil...
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[edit] Summary
From Scully's diary: "For the first time, I feel time like a heartbeat, the seconds pumping in my breast like a reckoning. The numinous mysteries that once seemed so distant and unreal, threatening clarity in the presence of a truth entertains not in youth, but only in it's passage. I feel these words as if their meaning were weight being lifted from me, knowing that you will read them and share my burden as I have come to trust no other. That you should know my heart, look into it, finding there the memory and experience that belong to you, that are you, is a comfort to me now, as I feel the tethers loose and the prospects darken for the continuance of a journey that began not so long ago, and which began again with a faith shaken and strengthened by your convictions. If not for which I might never have been so strong now, as I cross to face you, and look at you, incomplete, hoping that you will forgive me for not making the rest of the journey with you."
HOLY CROSS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
WASHINGTON, D.C.
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
ALLENTOWN-BETHLEHEM MEDICAL CENTER
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
LEHIGH FURNACE, PENNSYLVANIA
ALLENTOWN-BETHLEHEM MEDICAL CENTER
9:47 PM
5:05 AM
[edit] Background Information
- A storage drawer holding Scully's harvested eggs was labelled with a card dated 10/29/94. This date should correspond to the time period of her abduction by the aliens.
- The title of this episode means "remember that you are mortal" in Latin. In Latin, it can also mean "Remember you will die".
[edit] Links and References
[edit] Guest Stars
- Mitch Pileggi as A.D. Walter Skinner
- William B. Davis as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
- Tom Braidwood as Frohike
- Dean Haglund as Langly
- Bruce Harwood as Byers
- Sean Allan as Dr. Kevin Scanlon
- Gillian Barber as Penny Northern
- Julie Bond as a Woman
- Sheila Larken as Mrs. Scully
- David Lovgren as Kurt Crawford
- Vanessa Morley as Young Samantha
- Casey F. Murphy as Young Kurt Crawford
- Marilyn Norry as a Nurse
- Morris Panych as a Grey-Haired Man
[edit] References
Hagopian, Betsy; clipper chip; clone; DNA, human ova; Lombard Research Facility; MUFON; nasopharyngeal cancer; Vegreville
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