Pilot Episode

Mulder and Scully examine Ray Soames' exhumed body.

TAG LINE
None

SYNOPSIS

A girl named Karen Swenson dies mysteriously, after being engulfed by a bright white light with a phantom attacker in its midst. When she is positively identified, the Sheriff of Bellefleur, Oregon realises that "it" is happening again.

Meanwhile at the FBI Academy in Virginia, a medical doctor named Dana Scully is asked to report to Section Chief Scott Blevins. When she does so, she discovers that she has been re-assigned to work with the maverick Agent known as Fox Mulder, and debunk his work on the "x-files" - files which have been designated unsolved and unsolvable, usually dealing with paranormal or abnormal activity. While Blevins is briefing Scully, a Cigarette-Smoking Man watches on, but remains silent.

When Scully meets with Mulder, Mulder presents her with the case of Swenson in Oregon, and specifically shows her two strange red marks on her skin. The pair then travel to Oregon, where they exhume the body of Ray Soames, one of Swenson's classmates, but when the coffin is opened there is no human body - only a horrible, humanoid carcass. X-rays of the body reveal an unidentifiable metal object in the nasal cavity.

Mulder and Scully then make a trip to a mental institution where they interview two students named Billy Miles and Peggy O'Dell, another two of Swenson's classmates who were injured in a car accident. Billy Miles is a vegetable, and Peggy O'Dell is wheelchair-bound. O'Dell, in front of Mulder and Scully, becomes violent and Mulder notices two welts on Peggy's and Billy's backs ... just like Karen Swenson.

The next stop is the field where Karen Swenson died, and, as Mulder and Scully examine it, they are confronted by a detective who tells them to get off his property. They agree, but as they are driving back to their motel their car is engulfed by a bright white light and when they come to, they realise that they have lost nine minutes.

At their motel, Mulder confesses to Scully that he picked up work on the x-files because he underwent regression hypnotherapy several years ago and recounted memories of his sister, Samantha being abducted by extraterrestrial beings.

The phone rings, and an anonymous caller tells Mulder and Scully that Peggy O'Dell was killed as she ran along the highway, out of her wheelchair. While they investigate, they are told that the autopsy bay (where Ray Soames' body was autopsied) was vandalised. And when they return to their hotel, they find their rooms ablaze, with all the evidence - including photographs - destroyed.

Mulder and Scully are then confronted by Theresa Nemman, the daughter of the coroner who autopsied the victims. She tells them that she, too, has the red welts and tells them of a bright light that appeared in the sky on the evening that she was socialising with Miles and O'Dell. Mulder tells Scully of his theory that Miles is under the possession of an alien voice, and that he thinks it was Miles who killed O'Dell.

Returning to the forest in search of more evidence, Billy Miles' father, Detective Miles, tries to stop them and both he and Mulder see Billy carrying Theresa to the spot in the woods where the other victims had been found. A light illuminates the sky, and a whirlwind gathers around Billy. The light then fades, the winds die down, and Billy stands above Theresa, unaware of where he is or how he arrived there. The welts have gone from his skin.

Mulder and Scully arrive back in Washington, and Scully hands in her report to Blevins after passing the Cigarette Smoking Man in the hallway. She tells her superiors that the metal object was the only object not destroyed in the fire, and she hands it in.

Later, the Cigarette Smoking Man has the implant in his possession. He enters the basement of the Pentagon, making his way through shelves of evidence. He stops at a particular box, pulls it out, and places the implant in it ... along with other, similar implants ...

MY THOUGHTS

Well it wasn't too bad ...
If you want to compare it to the later episodes it is really bad. The acting is weak and the effects are worse but compareing it to the later episodes isn't fair,you can't expect perfection overnight it takes time.This was the first and we need to leave it at that.


MY RATING
7 / 10