Lazarus the Limerick
An FBI agent survives
But has a different spirit inside
The criminal's wife
Then takes his life
Right after he remembers a snowy drive.
This is another one of those someone from the past episodes that Season 1 could probably have done without. I don't hate this one as much as others but as an X-File it is pretty weak. An FBI agent and a bank robber are both shot and in the E.R., the agent is revived but somehow the spirit/soul/essence/whatever philosophy you subscribe to of the criminal enters the body of the agent. I have two major problems with the way this is presented: the other guy's body spasming when they shock the agent with the defibrillator, and the transferring of the tattoo. These two elements just don't make any sense at all and seem to only be added to drive some kind of point home about the transferring of the soul. But did we really need these things in order to figure that out? No. There were a couple things I did like. I liked the guest actor. He did a pretty good job I thought. Not annoying at all. And I liked Mulder in this episode going to all lengths to try and prove to Scully that the souls were switched. All in all I give the episode a 6 out of 10.
An FBI agent survives
But has a different spirit inside
The criminal's wife
Then takes his life
Right after he remembers a snowy drive.
This is another one of those someone from the past episodes that Season 1 could probably have done without. I don't hate this one as much as others but as an X-File it is pretty weak. An FBI agent and a bank robber are both shot and in the E.R., the agent is revived but somehow the spirit/soul/essence/whatever philosophy you subscribe to of the criminal enters the body of the agent. I have two major problems with the way this is presented: the other guy's body spasming when they shock the agent with the defibrillator, and the transferring of the tattoo. These two elements just don't make any sense at all and seem to only be added to drive some kind of point home about the transferring of the soul. But did we really need these things in order to figure that out? No. There were a couple things I did like. I liked the guest actor. He did a pretty good job I thought. Not annoying at all. And I liked Mulder in this episode going to all lengths to try and prove to Scully that the souls were switched. All in all I give the episode a 6 out of 10.