First Person Shooter
- Episode aired Feb 27, 2000
- TV-14
- 45m
A murder inside the high-tech world of a virtual reality game leads Scully to battle a deadly digital character in order to save Mulder's life.A murder inside the high-tech world of a virtual reality game leads Scully to battle a deadly digital character in order to save Mulder's life.A murder inside the high-tech world of a virtual reality game leads Scully to battle a deadly digital character in order to save Mulder's life.
- Ivan Martinez
- (as a different name)
- Lo-Fat
- (as Michael Ray Bower)
- Coroner
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis was such a complicated production that it was still being completed on the Saturday afternoon, hours before it was due to air.
- GoofsAt 39 min. 55 sec. in when Scully is faced with a Tank in the games 2nd Level, the door to exit the game behind her is clearly open when moments before it's closed and Mulder is shown trying to pry it open with his sword.
- Quotes
Dana Scully: Dressing up like high-tech warriors to play a futuristic version of cowboys & indians? What kind of moron gets his ya-yas out like that?
Fox Mulder: [points to himself]
Dana Scully: Mulder, what purpose does this game serve except to add to a culture of violence in a country that's already out of control?
Fox Mulder: Who says it adds to it?
Dana Scully: You think that taking up weapons and creating gratuitous virtual mayhem has any redeeming value whatsoever? I mean, that the testosterone frenzy that it creates stops when the game does?
Fox Mulder: Well, that's rather sexist, isn't it? I mean, maybe the game provides an outlet for certain impulses that it fills a void in our genetic makeup that the more civilizing effects of society fail to provide for.
Dana Scully: Well, that must be why men feel the great need to blast the crap out of stuff.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The X-Files: Jump the Shark (2002)
The previous William Gibson episode "Kill Switch" was excellent, and not overly laden with computer technology jargon at all the wrong places as this episode was. This isn't a complaint so much about the lack of "realism" with regard to the portrayal of video games or the computer industry; there have been many previous X-Files episodes that were tongue in cheek as this one was apparently aiming to be, but did so in a fashion that honored the subject matter (such as sci-fi concepts like virtual reality and man being able to transfer his consciousness into "cyberspace" as in "Kill Switch") without being completely oblivious or ignorant of said subject matter (as in this episode).
The sexist undercurrent to the story was just the coup de grace on this ridiculous, fragmented, ill-informed, and completely unworthy followup to Gibson's previous contribution to the series. It's a shame he didn't get to write another episode that might have better explored some of the social changes and perceptions in the coming digital age, touched on in "Kill Switch", and that are so prevalent in his written works.
- shomizu
- Jun 3, 2008
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- Hall of Justice - 211 W. Temple Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA(exterior entrance of L.A. County Sheriff's Department)
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