The Erlenmeyer Flask
- Episode aired May 13, 1994
- TV-14
- 46m
Deep Throat tips Mulder to a critically important case involving a missing fugitive and the cloning of extraterrestrial viruses.Deep Throat tips Mulder to a critically important case involving a missing fugitive and the cloning of extraterrestrial viruses.Deep Throat tips Mulder to a critically important case involving a missing fugitive and the cloning of extraterrestrial viruses.
- Captain Roy Lacerio
- (as Jim Leard)
- 2nd Uniformed Cop
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe lab on Pandora Street is a clear reference of the myth of Pandora's Box, where all humanity's evils were contained and then unleashed.
- GoofsWhen Scully attempts to gain entrance to the holding facility where the alien body is being kept, she hears a security guard ask her for the "Project Password" through a speaker grate. If you look closely, embossed on the bottom of the grate it says, "Cold Water Only". Apparently this grate was appropriated from another source and wasn't a speaker grate at all.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Mulder: They're shutting us down, Scully.
Scully: What?
Mulder: They called me in tonight and they said they're going to reassign us to other sections.
Scully: Who told you that?
Mulder: Skinner. He said word came down from the top of the Executive Branch.
Scully: Mulder...
Mulder: It's over, Scully.
Scully: Well, you have to lodge a protest. They can't...
Mulder: Yes they can.
Scully: What are you going to do?
Mulder: I'm... not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.
- Crazy creditsThe line at the end of the opening sequence that usually reads "The Truth Is Out There" is instead "Trust No One."
- ConnectionsFeatured in The X-Files: The Truth (2002)
- SoundtracksThe X-Files
(Credited)
Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Beal
This episode really got me thinking about all the security guards, military personnel, test pilots, research scientists, engineers, CIA agents, Men in Black, politicians, and international powerbrokers it requires to maintain conspiracies about aliens by those in the know. Think of how many we've seen this season! Mulder definitely picked the wrong line of work, he could have just tried to get a job as a security guard at the alien sample research lab and he'd have gotten all his answers in no time. When you think about it, it must require literally thousands of people on the inside to pull off. And every decade the majority of them would rotate out and need replaced by thousands more. And this is only one of the major nations involved, they would need to do this in every country that's a part of this conspiracy, which was at least half a dozen. By the time this show takes place, that hundreds of thousands of people involved in an alien conspiracy.
You'd think it'd be easier to get some answers!
- frankelee
- Jul 1, 2023
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