Don't you just love characters like Deputy Chief Karras (Ken Jenkins)? So consumed with getting the trains back running he's willing to risk infecting the entire population of Boston that rides the subway system. You have to know there are idiots like that running things in major cities, and probably a lot smaller ones as well. Personally, with his attitude, he probably should run for Congress.
What surprised me most about this episode is the way Agent Doggett deferred to Scully as his superior in the story. He called her the boss when defending Scully's decision making while he and a team of experts made their way into the tunnels to investigate a killer that turned out to be a deadly organism. All the while I'm thinking of 'Medusa' as being the mythological woman with snakes for hair, it turns out the organism that's causing the flesh eating outbreak resembles a shrimp with medusa-like appendages.
Rather incredibly, I thought Doggett put himself at risk beyond the call of duty here, what with a police detective going rogue on him and an unknown entity with the potential to wipe them all out. The resolution to defeating the poisonous organism with an electrical shock seemed more like a stroke of luck to me than a well defined strategy, making this case seem more like a 'let's get it over with' situation than most other X-Files. Sure would have liked to see someone take a poke at Chief Karras before it was all over though, he was just plain annoying.
What surprised me most about this episode is the way Agent Doggett deferred to Scully as his superior in the story. He called her the boss when defending Scully's decision making while he and a team of experts made their way into the tunnels to investigate a killer that turned out to be a deadly organism. All the while I'm thinking of 'Medusa' as being the mythological woman with snakes for hair, it turns out the organism that's causing the flesh eating outbreak resembles a shrimp with medusa-like appendages.
Rather incredibly, I thought Doggett put himself at risk beyond the call of duty here, what with a police detective going rogue on him and an unknown entity with the potential to wipe them all out. The resolution to defeating the poisonous organism with an electrical shock seemed more like a stroke of luck to me than a well defined strategy, making this case seem more like a 'let's get it over with' situation than most other X-Files. Sure would have liked to see someone take a poke at Chief Karras before it was all over though, he was just plain annoying.