Millennium (episode)
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| Series: | The X-Files |
| Original Airdate: | 11-28-1999 |
| Production Number: | 7xAB05 |
| Date(s): | December 21, 1999 - January 1, 2000 |
| Written by: | Vince Gilligan, Frank Spotnitz |
| Directed by: | Thomas J. Wright |
At the dawn of the Millennium, Agents Mulder and Scully ask retired Agent Frank Black for help investigating the recent deaths of various Millennium Group members.
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[edit] Summary
A widow at her husband's funeral in Tallahassee, Florida is approached by a man, Mark Johnson who claims to have worked with her husband. After the other mourners have left Johnson returns to the funeral parlour and places a phone in the dead man's hand. A week later Johnson waits outside a cemetery, his phone rings and he walks towards a grave. Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to examine the empty grave, from the evidence available to them they conclude that someone broke out of the casket. Scully theorises that someone made it look that way. At a briefing lead by Assistant Director Skinner however Mulder explains his own theory of Necromancy, the summoning of the dead. Skinner takes Mulder and Scully aside and explains to them that the dead man Crouch was part of the Millennium Group, a constancy organisation made up of former FBI agents. Mulder and Scully visit a criminal profiler, Frank Black a former member of the Millennium Group, he is reluctant to help them as he is involved in a custody battle for his daughter. But he agrees to help in their investigation, explaining that the members of the Millennium group believe they can bring about the end of the world by killing themselves before the dawn of the new Millennium. Acting on information from Frank Black, Mulder concentrates on trying to find Johnson, when Scully is attacked in the morgue by the dead deputy. The two agents put all their effort in to finding Johnson before it is too late.[1]
[edit] Background Information
- This episode is often cited as bringing closure to the Millennium series story arc and features the last appearances of Frank and Jordan Black.
- This episode was included in the Millennium Season 3 DVD release.
- In the Millennium episode "Midnight of the Century", a newspaper from December, 1946 gave Frank Black's age as 5 years old. His age in this episode, set in 1999, would therefore be 58.
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[edit] Guest Stars
- Lance Henriksen as Frank Black
- Holmes Osborne as Mark Johnson
- Brittany Tiplady as Jordan Black
- Monnae Michaell as Coroner
- Octavia Spencer as Nurse
- Romy Walthall as Second Agent
- Stephen Ramsey as First Agent
- Eulan Middlebrooks as Young Cop
- Michael Dempsey as Sheriff
- Colby French as Deputy
- William Forward as Funeral Director
- Marilyn McIntyre as Widow
- Dick Clark as himself
- Donald Trump as himself
[edit] References
Millennium Group,Jordan Black,Catherine Black
[edit] Trivia
- When Skinner hands Mulder and Scully the Millenium Groups symbol, we can see that it's a Ouroboros. This is the same symbol that Scully got tattooed on her back in Never Again.
- Vince Gilligan's tradition of including his girlfriend's name (Lucy "Holly" Hartwell Rice) in all his episodes continues here - much of the episode takes place in Rice County, Maryland, and the institution where Frank stays is the Hartwell Psychiatric Hospital (in Virginia - Vince's home state).
- This is the only explicit "crossover" with the cancelled Millennium show. A previous character crossover featured Scully's favourite writer, José Chung (author of "From Outer Space"), in the Millennium episode "José Chung's Doomsday Defense", both episodes written by Darin Morgan.
- After watching the ball drop on New Years' Eve we see the second on-screen kiss between Mulder & Scully.
- Mulder: Shoot them in the head, it seems to stop them
This line is a homage to the original Night of the Living Dead.[2]
- The Tagline for this Episode is "The Truth is Out There"
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