Duane Barry

Calm down, Scully...

Unfortunately, what kept me from totally enjoying this otherwise excellent episode was the lack of rat. We had a fair few nice scenes at the beginning, like the speedo thing, but after about halfway, it kinda stopped, and Krycek became the waiter-boy. Well, if the FBI thing falls through, he has a career in coffee.

Other than that, I really liked this ep - so did Nick Lea, I think it's his fave. Spooky ending...made me rethink my policy of always watching X-Files on Sky One with all lights off and curtains drawn, at ten o'clock at night. Did Krycek have anything to do with DB finding Scully? I think not. More likely, the consortium did, through the chip-implant things. Anyvague, a pregnant Gillian Anderson gets her leave, or so it seems. Well, she's still there at the end of this ep!

Great acting in this episode. Everything really came together. I was well impressed, considering it was my 6th XF episode I ever saw. On Sky1, that is..

Four and a half squeaks. To get five, we need more Krycek.