Monday (28 Feb. 1999)
"The X Files" Monday (original title)

A bank robbery gone wrong turns into disaster for Mulder and Scully. Mulder gets shot by the bank robber, and he and Scully, along with everyone else in the bank are blown up by a bomb ... See full summary »

Director:

Kim Manners

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator), Vince Gilligan,

Stars:

David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Cast

Episode cast overview:
David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Assistant Director Walter Skinner
Wayne Alexander	...	Assistant Director Arnold
Darren E. Burrows	...	Bernard (as Darren Burrows)
Monique Edwards	...	Head Teller
Carrie Hamilton	...	Pam
David Michael Mullins	...	Tour Guide
Mik Scriba	...	Lieutenant Kraskow
Suanne Spoke	...	Woman Customer
Arlene Warren	...	Skinner's Assistant (as Arlene Pileggi)

Storyline

A bank robbery gone wrong turns into disaster for Mulder and Scully. Mulder gets shot by the bank robber, and he and Scully, along with everyone else in the bank are blown up by a bomb strapped to the bank robber's chest. However, this same day continues to repeat in an endless cycle always ending in the same result.

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Plot Keywords:

bank robbery | repeated scene | waterbed | explosion | shot in the chest | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 February 1999 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Farmers & Merchants Bank - S Main St & W 4th St, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Fox Television, Ten Thirteen Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Scully's comment, "when did you get a water bed?", refers back to an earlier episode in season 6 'Dreamland II', when Morris Fletcher bought himself a new water bed, thinking he would be living the rest of his life in Mulder's body and put it in Mulder's bedroom. Mulder has no memory of those events so has no idea where he got his water bed from!

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Goofs

Mulder's waterbed is shown with a leak spraying water in the air. This might happen if one or more people were lying on the bed or pressing down on the mattress, but the fountain continues to spray when he is out of the bed. Waterbed leaks don't spray so much as ooze. Furthermore, the amount of water lost to cause the degree of saturation on the carpet (not to mention leaking into the apartment below) would mean that the bed would have lost most or all of its water, leaving Mulder waking up lying on the bottom of the mattress box.

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Quotes

Pam: [Mulder looks at Pam through the car window] You never did *that* before.

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Connections

References Groundhog Day (1993)

User Reviews

Its coming through down there?

Monday was an enjoyable episode to a certain point. I don't know exactly what parts specifically bothered me so I will focus on what I liked after I say one thing: the girl that was stuck in the day was annoying.

So things I liked about this episode. I liked that each repeat of the day was not exactly the same. This made it so that rather than just showing the same scenes over and over again we actually got to see the actors do multiple takes of the same. I thought it was funny that on the third day Mulder seemed a little more impatient than previously like "ya ya we already did this lets get it done right this time." And frankly who hasn't had a Monday like this? Today being Monday I can say that if I was stuck in a recurring loop where every day was Monday I would probably kill myself. This was an enjoyable episode to watch simply because of David Duchovny. I give it 7/10.