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"The X Files" Wetwired (1996)


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8.2/10   407 votes
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Writers:
Chris Carter (creator)
Mat Beck (written by)
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Original Air Date:
10 May 1996 (Season 3, Episode 23)
Plot:
A man who killed five people claims that all of his victims were the same war criminal he saw on TV... more | add synopsis
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Why Didn't Mat Beck Write More? more (3 total)

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Runtime:
Argentina:60 min
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Trivia:
The name John Gillnitz shows up at least six times in the series, usually as a throwaway character. It's an in-joke, an amalgamation of the name of three people who worked on the show:'JOHN Shiban', 'Vince GILLigan' and 'Frank SpotNITZ'. The name appears in the following episodes: Episode #3.23, "Wetwired", victim in hammock (uncredited) Episode 4.12, "Leonard Betts", bearded man/murder victim ('Ken Jones' ) Episode 5.6, "Christmas Carol", DNA technician (uncredited) Episode #6.5, "Dreamland: Part 2", mentioned in passing, does not appear on screen Episode 7.14, "Theef", reporter ('Mark Thompson' ) Episode #9.15, "Jump the Shark", man with bioweapon (Marcus Giamatti) more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Mulder states that he is color blind; if this were true he would be medically ineligible to be a Special Agent in the FBI. more
Quotes:
Mulder: Scully, you are the only one I trust. more
Movie Connections:
References Die Hard (1988) more

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18 out of 19 people found the following review useful.
Why Didn't Mat Beck Write More?, 15 July 2006
10/10
Author: Muldernscully from Washington Terrace, Utah

Mat Beck was the visual effects supervisor for the x-files all the years while they were filming in Vancouver. Somehow, he wrote an episode for them as well that turned out to be one of the best "pseudo-myth/arc" episodes. I don't know if the producers asked Mat to put myth/arc elements in his story or if he just did it that way, but he really got it down well. Wetwired is an intriguing story with good drama, suspense and action. It features the Lone Gunmen, X, and the Cigarette Smoking Man. It certainly is a jam-packed 45 minutes. I'm sure Mat Beck also produced the cool special effect of the paranoid people experiencing the TV-like vision of a signal being adjusted. Scully becomes affected as well, and it highlights her fear of being betrayed by Mulder. She runs to her mom, as the only person she feels she can trust. This episode even leads into the season finale myth/arc 'Talitha Cumi' in a way, which additionally makes me wonder if the producers requested that Mat include certain elements in his script. Mat Beck does an 'A' job in his only stint as a writer for the show, which begs the question stated in the summary of this review.

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