I never watched “The X-Files” in its heyday because I was a sheltered child (feel free to chime in with your shock and disdain, everyone), but the concept of this crazy scientist helping out with an investigative team was potentially interesting to me. If it weren’t so obvious from the first time he showed up who the real culprit was in the kidnapping, it might not have been so boring. As it was, it felt like two blunderers who were taking everything at face value (Nina Sharp’s evil cackles: Nah, can’t possibly be important!) Also, in this episode there was very little deduction work; it was as if, once they’d found the answer, they happened on it so suddenly none of the potential fun of detective-ry was allowed to viewers.

That said, the image of the troops swarming with the white-noise heartbeat was pretty cool.

I never watched “The X-Files” in its heyday because I was a sheltered child (feel free to chime in with your shock and disdain, everyone), but the concept of this crazy scientist helping out with an investigative team was potentially interesting to me. If it weren’t so obvious from the first time he showed up who the real culprit was in the kidnapping, it might not have been so boring. As it was, it felt like two blunderers who were taking everything at face value (Nina Sharp’s evil cackles: Nah, can’t possibly be important!) Also, in this episode there was very little deduction work; it was as if, once they’d found the answer, they happened on it so suddenly none of the potential fun of detective-ry was allowed to viewers.

That said, the image of the troops swarming with the white-noise heartbeat was pretty cool.