This is the followup to Duane Barry that left off at Scully being abducted.
I remarked in my comment for the first part, that what we see of Duane Barry's frightening experience of abduction may be imagined by Mulder as a viewer, in fact it makes the most sense that it is.
The continuation of that here is that Mulder, at the crime scene of Scully's home, has 'flashes' of what actually happened, we process these (and were likely filmed) as 'real' truth but there's no reason for it to be so. More to the point. Our glimpse of Scully in the 'ship' having some horrible experiment conducted on her is Mulder's vision, with his face reflected on broken glass.
Worthwhile as a thriller, this aspect shifts here from the hostage crisis to a frantic chase, dangerous acrobatics on a skylift, and all sorts of paranoia as secret government distorts the picture, with the helicopter, possible poisoning of the suspect and withholding forensic analysis. It ends, triumphantly in all the gloom, with the X-files being opened again.
I remarked in my comment for the first part, that what we see of Duane Barry's frightening experience of abduction may be imagined by Mulder as a viewer, in fact it makes the most sense that it is.
The continuation of that here is that Mulder, at the crime scene of Scully's home, has 'flashes' of what actually happened, we process these (and were likely filmed) as 'real' truth but there's no reason for it to be so. More to the point. Our glimpse of Scully in the 'ship' having some horrible experiment conducted on her is Mulder's vision, with his face reflected on broken glass.
Worthwhile as a thriller, this aspect shifts here from the hostage crisis to a frantic chase, dangerous acrobatics on a skylift, and all sorts of paranoia as secret government distorts the picture, with the helicopter, possible poisoning of the suspect and withholding forensic analysis. It ends, triumphantly in all the gloom, with the X-files being opened again.