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The X Files: The Field Where I Died (1996)
Mulder & Scully for an eternity
I respect opinions of Muldernscully, I like to read his comments after watching each episode. Usually I agree with him, but not this time. You've got to see this episode! "The field where I died" is definitely one of more original episodes from whole series. It's not spooky, there are no creepy monsters (episodes 4x02-4x05 where really dark and disturbing, at last something different) and is definitely not the funny one like "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" or "War of the Coprophages". It's kinda spiritual, because the theme is about reincarnation. What is interesting - there is no murder or dead body at the teaser. That's kinda surprising because you could count such episodes at fingers in perspective of 3 past seasons. So the episode starts slow. Then it gets more and more interesting. I thought that it would be simple episode about some crazy cult, with a leader with abnormal abilities, but I was wrong. We learn about past life of Mulder, his previous incarnation, his life as a Jewish woman in WWII in Poland or as a soldier during Civil War. In Mulder's past memories there is Scully (her soul) as a different person, also CSM, Samantha, Moulder's father. All above might sound really strange, but come on.. Stranger things happened in the X-files.. For me it seemed so surprising, something really unforeseen. Concept of souls bounded together for an eternity in different incarnations isn't something new. There are religions that reincarnation is a basic dogma. Putting the "relationship" of Mulder&Scully in such context is very interesting.
What is more, I loved acting of David Duchovny and Kirsten Cloke in this episode. Kirsten shown very good performance playing number of characters (Sidney is hilarious!). And Duchovny.. He is great in dramatic parts! I love episodes about Mulder's family - he shows his real emotions, which are hidden during his "normal" work. The same is here, we see Mulder suffering, showing his true emotions during the hypnotic session. And in this episode he calls Scully - Dana. It's so rare!! Don't miss Mulder and Scully talk about their relationship, and witty remark of Scully about the Flukeman Thing ;)
Great episode. Shame it must end the way it ends.