Yesterday night my beloved wife and I went back to The X-Files and
watched together the next episode, s01e11 Eve.

Mulder and Scully investigate a strange homicide, where the body
presents the kind of puzzling features seen in alleged alien cattle
mutilation cases: cicatrised punctures on the jugular, with no blood
visible on the scene anywhere, following a death by blood loss. Mulder
and Mulder speak with the victim's nine-year-old daughter, who appears understandably shaken. The girl recounts seeing red lightning and men
from the sky.
The conversation is interrupted by a phone call Scully receives: another identical death has happened, exactly at the same time, in a different
State.

The other victim also has a daughter, looking exactly identical to first
girl. After learning that the girls were conceived through in-vitro fertilisation the agents travel to the clinic where IVF happened, nine
years before. The director of the program, then a recent hire, was experimenting with human cloning.

We learn that the first girl has just been kidnapped; despite the
agent's protection the same happens to the second girl: a strong female
figure overpowers Scully and leaves with the girl.

Deep Throat (unsolicited, if I understand correctly) volunteers help,
directing Mulder and Scully to interview the subjects of a Cold-War era eugenics program which was aimed at producing very intelligent subjects.
The program failed when all subjects exhibited psychotic traits; most of
them are now interned in a psychiatric facility.
The girls, the doctor who implanted them as embryos, and the women
interned are all clones, each named "Eve" followed by a number: they
feel an instinctive connection with each other and collaborate.

Eventually Mulder and Scully manage to prove the girls' role in the two murders, and the girls end up interned in the same facility as the other clones, reunited. The doctor clone is also with them.


This was a good episode, built around the uncanny feeling of seeing
apparently cute and innocent girls deviously intelligent and capable of
cold deception and plotting. The girls lie, very competently, and use
poison -- digitalis, which has a sweet taste to mask its true nature; in
a scene near the end they attempt to frame Mulder as their kidnapper and
play the victims in a convincing manner.

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Scruffy Beard

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Scruffy Beard
<ask-me-in-public-if-you-want-my-address@address.invalid> writes:

Yesterday night my beloved wife and I went back to The X-Files and
watched together the next episode, s01e11 Eve.

One of my all-time favorites! The actresses for the younger and
older Eves brought a fantastic creepiness to the roles.

The producers mentioned a few times over the years wanting to do
a sequel to this one. I'm not sure why it never happened.
I think there was a lot of potential.

However, I think we saw a kind of spiritual sequel, in the series
"Orphan Black." If any X-phile hasn't seen that yet: go watch!

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On 2023-10-06 at 14:33 +0000, Eric Gillespie wrote:

One of my all-time favorites! The actresses for the younger and
older Eves brought a fantastic creepiness to the roles.

Indeed.

However, I think we saw a kind of spiritual sequel, in the series
"Orphan Black." If any X-phile hasn't seen that yet: go watch!

Thanks!

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Scruffy Beard

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