Chris Carter

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Apocrypha was written by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter, directed by Kim Manners, and originally aired February 16th, 1996.

Wow.

Just 30, 29 years before my child was born.

Season one, episode two of the X-Files called Deep Throat debuted on Fox on September 17th, 1993.

It was written by Chris Carter and directed by Daniel Sackheim and has a runtime of 48 minutes and 45 minutes and 48 seconds.

We begin in Idaho, where military test pilot Colonel Robert Budahas isn't looking so good and promptly gets kidnapped for four months by the, well, unknown branch of the military.

Despite having his phone bugged and getting a warning from an old white guy in the men's room, Mulder grabs Scully and heads west to investigate what he believes is a case involving an experimental aircraft powered by UFO tech.

He was in The Firm.

He was actually in The Firm, the Tom Cruise movie.

And that's where Chris Carter saw him and wanted him for Deep Throat.

So, and then went on to do some of the Star Trek stuff and some more TV stuff after that.

Right then.

Well, it's time to dive further into the raging conspiracies that abound in the first episode of season five, which is titled "Redux," directed by R.W. Goodwin and written by the erstwhile Chris Carter.

Now, what's happened? Where are we going at the end of season four into season five, and will any of this make any sense whatsoever? Well, I hope that you've caught up on the last episode because, of course, I discussed in quite some detail the previous episode, which was episode 24 of season four.

And now we move into, straight back into all of the action because Krycek makes a call to who is a visibly morose Mulder sitting on his lounge.

But as I said, the, the, the monologuing, the overbearing sort of, uh, discussions from Mulder and Scully's heads, um, tends to stuff the episode up a little bit.

Righto, after the excitement of "Redux," why not continue along that path a little more with episode two of season five, titled "Redux 2"? [laughs] That's original.

Uh, directed by Kim Manners, and with the writing again helmed by Chris Carter.

So now we've gotta tie up the loose ends from the last episode, which shows Mulder turning up at the ICU, even though, of course, he's dead.

Okay.

So here's something you have in common with Chris Carter, and this is the reason that there's this through line of Cher in this episode.

Okay.

I talked a couple episodes ago about how in the Unusual Suspects episode, Mulder was barely in it and Scully wasn't in it at all because that was the summer when they were still filming the movie.

And so they weren't in Vancouver yet.

That same summer, Chris Carter spent the summer getting really obsessed with Cher's music.

Really? And that is why this episode is so heavy on the Cher.

Chris Carter's just really into her at this point and was like, how about some Cher? Which I think is awesome.

I'm so excited

... um, in other spooky shows that you can watch, it's X-Files Day on October 13th, which is creator Chris Carter's birthday, as well as fictional character Fox Mulder's birthday.

Mm-hmm.

And the name of the production company was Ten Thirteen Productions.

And...

Chris Carter was so inspired that he, you know, that show inspired the X-Files, which I fell head over heels in love with.

So having taken courses also in pseudo sciences of psychology, which would be experiential psychology and parapsychology, I put together a course called Understanding the Bare Normal.

And the course was waitlisted within a few days to a week.

It's funny because we talked offline, actually, before we even recording this and looking at this article.

about how I'm like, oh, look at this great clip of David Duchovny talking with Chris Carter about putting out X-Files.

I want to believe, you know, director's cut.

And I think you and my friend Katie, who's a diehard X-Files fan, just like, yeah, I don't think that's going to save it.