The Goldberg Variation


Mulder uses bad investigative form by randomly choosing a location out of the yellow pages. I'm sure this isn't something he learned at Quantico.

Scully:  You know in 1998, there was a British soldier who plummeted 4,500 feet when his parachute failed and he walked away with a broken rib.

Mulder:  What's your point?

Scully:  My point is that if there's a wind gust, or a sudden updraft and, plus, if he landed in exactly the right way, I mean, I don't know.  Maybe he just got lucky.

Mulder:  [sarcastically] What if he got really, really lucky?  That's your big scientific explanation, Scully?  [he laughs as Scully flashes the light across his face] I mean, how many thousands of variables would have to convene in just the right mixture for that theory to hold water?

And being very, very lucky sounds more ridiculous than fat sucking vampires or mothmen?  How?

General Punkesque Behavior

Laughing at Scully when she suggested that Henry Weems got lucky:  It has happened and it's more plausible than the genetic ability to heal quickly.

Mulder would be better off leaving the plumbing to the professionals.  He clearly sucks at it.

If Mulder is going to watch someone do something as personal as putting in a false eye he might try a little harder not to wince so obviously.

Even Mulder would be forced to admit that Henry Weems' being really, really, lucky being an X-File is pushing it.  But he won't because he's a Punk.

Mulder strikes again:  He runs out with no explanation calling for Scully to follow him.  Typical.

Unprofessional Behavior

Talk about lucky breaks.  It's a good thing that Henry Weems' luck was rubbing off on him otherwise he would never have found Mr. Weems.  I'm pretty sure that opening the phone book at random and pointing to an ad is not something he was taught at Quantico.


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