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Folie a deux S5 Ep19
A tense and clever episode which pulls from numerous previous eps like Duane barry to name one but still manages to have a feel of originality. Mulder is starting to flag and doubt his role but also it seems his trust of Skinners motives in assigning him the case and the relationship with Scully is tested again.
His feeling that this is just a routine case that even required only him to go shows he is starting to get disillusioned again with the x files but his belief in the unusual is soon reinforced so much so that we start to see that hunger and enthusiasm not really seen throughout s5. He sees things from a different angle no one else is prepared to entertain and once again no one else believes him, once again he is right and i felt that was the where this episode held its best twist, where all the people were actually killed but somehow kept 'alive' to deceive everyone.
The monster is not great but i think they may have run out of money more than ideas being the seasons penultimate episode. It doesn't spoil it as the sound effect is good and effective enough. The hostage scenes are excellent as well as the finale. It didn't quite descend into the comedy it could have which helped as it took itself seriously and again we are left hanging with the call centre scene at the end.
Vividly remembered this one though 20 years old. S5 still holding up as one of the most consistent.
9/10
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