The X-Files: Detour (1997)
Season 5, Episode 4
10/10
Mulder and Scully are trapped in the wilderness bad-ass horror episode in the fifth season
25 June 2019
Detour feels like a rather conventional and old-fashioned episode, with Mulder and Scully encountering something strange in a rural setting, getting trapped in the wilderness, and encountering a monster threatened by the expansion of civilisation. One of my favorite episodes in the woods in which Mulder and Scully are trapped in the wilderness in Apalachicola National Forest in Leon County, Florida two invisible monsters are hunting and eating people who cross their paths in the woods. Really creepy and spooky episode.

Detour is the kind of story that The X-Files has always done very well. Sending Mulder and Scully off into a remote location with a cast of expendable supporting characters can be counted on to deliver all the requisite X-Files ingredients.

On the way to an FBI convention in Florida, Mulder and Scully stop to help in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of three people in the woods, where a pair of invisible humanoids lurk.

Detour was broadcast between Unusual Suspects and The Post-Modern Prometheus. This episode is a really good example of the different characterization of Mulder and Scully by different writers. I love Detour to death.
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