The X-Files Revisited Season 8 Episode 9: Salvage

salvage then let's do it uh so we open up on kurt and nora talking after ray's funeral basil exposition style like the

worst can i just say that when i put this episode on 18 seconds into it i went back to the start because i thought i had jumped into the middle of a sequence

yeah yeah like we're supposed to know who ray is we're supposed to know

yeah i was like i've missed something and then i put the tv six 18 seconds and i was probably maybe there's something going on here i'll just go back to the start and i was like

no no this is

where it starts

Yeah, and it's just like you get the sense after like 30 seconds, it's like, oh, okay, no, they're filling us in on

everything.

They're explaining to us through the dialogue that, you know, everything that's happened.

Yeah, her husband died.

He was in the military.

She blames the military.

Something's clearly like poisoned him or whatever, and she blames them.

They're to fault, and it's like, We see someone watching from outside and it's Ray.

Basically, I'm explaining the opening sequence here.

He's stood in the road when this guy is leaving Nora and basically smashes his car into this guy that turns out to be Ray.

And Ray just barely has a scratch on him.

And it's like, yeah.

So we know that, okay, clearly Ray's got a beef with his best friend.

He's back seemingly from the dead.

So right off the bat, we know his best friend had something to do with what happened to him.

And that's your setup.

But really the...

The thing about it that makes you go, ooh, is the fact that he's just stood in the road and this car plows into him and it's just like, it's really nice.

I'm expecting either the car to stop like an inch from him or for him to either pass right through the car.