Field Trip (9 May 1999)
"The X Files" Field Trip (original title)

A young married couple's skeletons are found together on a field in the mountains after only being reported missing for three days. The area where their skeletons were found is known for ... See full summary »

Director:

Kim Manners

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator), John Shiban (teleplay),

Stars:

David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Cast

Episode credited cast:
David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Walter Skinner
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jim Beaver	...	Coroner
Tom Braidwood	...	Melvin Frohike
David Denman	...	Wallace Schiff
Dean Haglund	...	Richard 'Ringo' Langly
Bruce Harwood	...	John Fitzgerald Byers
Robyn Lively	...	Angela Schiff

Storyline

A young married couple's skeletons are found together on a field in the mountains after only being reported missing for three days. The area where their skeletons were found is known for UFO activity, so Mulder and Scully go there to investigate it. Mulder finds the couple alive and all signs point to an alien abduction. But everything is not as it seems.

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Plot Keywords:

consciousness | footprints | slime | headache | digestive enzyme | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 May 1999 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ten Thirteen Productions, 20th Century Fox Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The small gray alien was played by seven year old Cody Weselis, son of X-Files stunt coordinator Danny Weselis.

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Goofs

When Mulder and Scully are talking about North Carolina and the Brown Mountain Lights, in the background is displayed a oversized map of South Carolina. And Asheville, North Carolina is located in Buncombe County. There is no Boone County in North Carolina.

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Quotes

Scully: My role in the X-files have always been to provide a rational, scientific perspective to cases that would seem to defy explanation, a counterpoint to Agent Mulder.
Walter Skinner: And you have done that. You have performed admirably.
Scully: Have I? How many X-files have my scientific approach fully and satisfactorily explained?
Walter Skinner: Your reports have consistently made sense of his conclusions.

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Connections

Features StarCraft (1998)

User Reviews

Among the Best Stand Alone Episodes

Two skeletons have been unearthed, seemingly of two missing hikers. But as Mulder and Scully try to comprehend what force is behind their deaths...something far more sinister is at work already. And the force that claimed the hikers may already affecting the agents themselves...

The episode, cleverly titled, is among this reviewer's favorites. After the first viewing, one has the tendency to feel cheated. But after repeat viewings, it gets better and better as one realizes that the episode is doing it's honest best to make sure that the viewer never knows quite what is going on.

A pure mind trip of the highest order, this episode delivers the goods. A nicely layered psychological puzzle that will remind the viewer what the unexplained is truly about...and why X-Files is at the top of the class.