I watched season 3 episode 20 Jose Chung's From Outer Space tonight and loved it.
In Klass County, Washington, teenagers Harold and Chrissy are driving home when their car suddenly stops. As they step out, a UFO appears, and they are abducted by two grey aliensÄwho are soon confronted by a larger alien of a different species. The greys panic and begin speaking English.
Later, author Jose Chung (Charles Nelson Reilly) interviews Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) for a book on alien abductions. Scully recalls that Chrissy's clothes were found inside out, suggesting that she had been the victim of date rape. However, when questioned, Harold claimed that he did not rape Chrissy and that the two had instead been abducted by aliens. Mulder (David Duchovny) has Chrissy hypnotized; she describes being in a spaceship with grey aliens, one of whom probes her mind psychically. This differs from Harold's account, which involves being trapped in a cage along with Chrissy and a grey alien in a nearby cage repeating "This is not happening." Mulder becomes convinced they were abducted.
Scully recounts how she and Mulder interviewed power company lineman Roky Crikenson, who claimed to witness the abduction and wrote a screenplay about it. He said he was later visited by men in black (played by Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek), who told him he had only seen the planet Venus. (Roky's story also includes an encounter he had with a third alien, Lord Kinbote, who took him to the center of the Earth.) Fantastical flourishes notwithstanding, Mulder felt that Roky's story was enough evidence to have Chrissy re-hypnotized to see if her story better aligns with Harolds on further inquiry. This time, she claimed she had been abducted by the military, who brainwashed her into believing it was aliens.
Chung next interviews a science fiction enthusiast named Blaine, who claims to have seen Mulder and Scully (whom he believes were "men in black") recover an alien corpse. Blaine says that Mulder shrieked at the sight of the alien corpse, and that "Scully"Äwhom he insists was a disguised manÄthreatened
him into silence. Blaine then says that Mulder let him film Scully perform an autopsy of the body, which that revealed the "alien" was actually a United States Air Force pilot in costume. Thereafter, the military arrived to retrieve the body, but not before Mulder managed to trick them into revealing the name of a second missing pilot, Lieutenant Jack Schaefer.
The episode then cuts back to Chung's interview with Scully. According to Scully, after the autopsy, Mulder found Schaefer in a dazed state, walking naked down a local highway. After getting him some clothes, Mulder then took Schaefer to a diner, where the pilot explained that he and his partner had been dressed as aliens while flying a secret U.S. military vehicle designed to resemble a UFO. Schaefer confessed that he, his partner, and the two teenagers had been abducted by real aliens in a real UFO. Suddenly, Schaefer's superiors arrived and took him away. (At this point, Chung interrupts Scully and reveals that the diner's cook told him a different version of the story: according to the cook, Mulder visited the diner alone and kept asking strange questions about UFOs while ordering piece after piece of sweet potato pie.)
Scully then continues her story, claiming that, after the autopsy, the next thing she remembers is waking up the next morning to find that Mulder had slept in a chair in her room. (According to Mulder, after leaving the diner, he returned to the motel and found the men in black from earlier in her room, with Scully herself in some sort of trance; Scully insists that she has no memory of this occurrence.) Mulder and Scully then visited the site of a crashed Air Force plane, where the dead bodies of the two pilots, including Schaefer, were recovered.
Sometime after interviewing Scully, Chung is visited by Mulder, who pleads with him not to publish his book, since it will further discredit UFO researchers and witnesses by making them look ridiculous. Chung dismisses Mulder and publishes it anyway. The finalized work reveals that Roky has moved to California and has founded a cult based on the teachings of Lord Kinbote, Blaine has replaced Roky as a power company lineman and continues to search for UFOs; and that Harold professed his love to Chrissy, only for her to reject him and dedicate her life to philanthropy; Mulder, on the other hand, is written-off as "a ticking time bomb of insanity". The book ends
with Chung concluding that the evidence for extraterrestrial life remains elusive.
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I watched season 3 episode 20 Jose Chung's From Outer Space tonight and lo it.
In Klass County, Washington, teenagers Harold and Chrissy are driving home when their car suddenly stops. As they step out, a UFO appears, and they a abducted by two grey aliensÄwho are soon confronted by a larger alien of a different species. The greys panic and begin speaking English.
Later, author Jose Chung (Charles Nelson Reilly) interviews Agent Dana Scu (Gillian Anderson) for a book on alien abductions. Scully recalls that Chrissy's clothes were found inside out, suggesting that she had been the victim of date rape. However, when questioned, Harold claimed that he did rape Chrissy and that the two had instead been abducted by aliens. Mulder (David Duchovny) has Chrissy hypnotized; she describes being in a spaceshi with grey aliens, one of whom probes her mind psychically. This differs fr Harold's account, which involves being trapped in a cage along with Chriss and a grey alien in a nearby cage repeating "This is not happening." Mulde becomes convinced they were abducted.
Scully recounts how she and Mulder interviewed power company lineman Roky Crikenson, who claimed to witness the abduction and wrote a screenplay abo it. He said he was later visited by men in black (played by Jesse Ventura Alex Trebek), who told him he had only seen the planet Venus. (Roky's stor also includes an encounter he had with a third alien, Lord Kinbote, who to him to the center of the Earth.) Fantastical flourishes notwithstanding, Mulder felt that Roky's story was enough evidence to have Chrissy re-hypnotized to see if her story better aligns with Harolds on further inquiry. This time, she claimed she had been abducted by the military, who brainwashed her into believing it was aliens.
Chung next interviews a science fiction enthusiast named Blaine, who claim to have seen Mulder and Scully (whom he believes were "men in black") reco an alien corpse. Blaine says that Mulder shrieked at the sight of the alie corpse, and that "Scully"Äwhom he insists was a disguised manÄthreatened him into silence. Blaine then says that Mulder let him film Scully perform autopsy of the body, which that revealed the "alien" was actually a United States Air Force pilot in costume. Thereafter, the military arrived to retrieve the body, but not before Mulder managed to trick them into reveal the name of a second missing pilot, Lieutenant Jack Schaefer.
The episode then cuts back to Chung's interview with Scully. According to Scully, after the autopsy, Mulder found Schaefer in a dazed state, walking naked down a local highway. After getting him some clothes, Mulder then to Schaefer to a diner, where the pilot explained that he and his partner had been dressed as aliens while flying a secret U.S. military vehicle designe to resemble a UFO. Schaefer confessed that he, his partner, and the two teenagers had been abducted by real aliens in a real UFO. Suddenly, Schaefer's superiors arrived and took him away. (At this point, Chung interrupts Scully and reveals that the diner's cook told him a different version of the story: according to the cook, Mulder visited the diner alon and kept asking strange questions about UFOs while ordering piece after pi of sweet potato pie.)
Scully then continues her story, claiming that, after the autopsy, the nex thing she remembers is waking up the next morning to find that Mulder had slept in a chair in her room. (According to Mulder, after leaving the dine he returned to the motel and found the men in black from earlier in her ro with Scully herself in some sort of trance; Scully insists that she has no memory of this occurrence.) Mulder and Scully then visited the site of a crashed Air Force plane, where the dead bodies of the two pilots, includin Schaefer, were recovered.
Sometime after interviewing Scully, Chung is visited by Mulder, who pleads with him not to publish his book, since it will further discredit UFO researchers and witnesses by making them look ridiculous. Chung dismisses Mulder and publishes it anyway. The finalized work reveals that Roky has moved to California and has founded a cult based on the teachings of Lord Kinbote, Blaine has replaced Roky as a power company lineman and continues search for UFOs; and that Harold professed his love to Chrissy, only for h to reject him and dedicate her life to philanthropy; Mulder, on the other hand, is written-off as "a ticking time bomb of insanity". The book ends with Chung concluding that the evidence for extraterrestrial life remains elusive.
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My favorite episode was "War of the Coprophages" (Season 3, Episode 12)
Who loves cockroaches? Oh, right: nobody, which is why this Darin Morgan-pen episode managed to be filled with a lot of nervous laughter derived from see other people having to deal with an invasion of these creepy-crawly critters When the episode began, Mulder was enjoying a bit of downtime, doing exactly what you'd expect him to be doing to relax Ä investigating some recent UFO sightings Ä when an accidental encounter with a local sheriff led him to get involved in a spate of what seemed to be roach attacks. Indeed, a few more occurred while Mulder is in town, which inspired a running gag throughout th first half of the episode about Mulder calling Scully for help, inspiring he to offer to join him in the town, only for him to decide she didn't need to so.
Of course, eventually, Scully did join Mulder, but, before their reunion, Mulder had a close encounter with Dr. Bambi Berenbaum (Bobbie Phillips), a cockroach researcher who helped him look into the town's problem. And when s believed that some of the roaches may be mechanical, it led him to Dr. Ivano (Ken Kramer), a scientist who works with insect-inspired robots. In the end, the whole thing circled back to Dr. Eckerle (Raye Birk), the first local to experience a roach attack, and there was a big ol' dung explosion to wrap things up. Last but not least, be sure you're watching the screen very, very closely at around the 31:30 mark. (If you know, you know.)
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