The X Files: Deep Throat

The FBI gets contacted by the wife of a military pilot, who has been missing since being retrieved from his home some four months ago. Mulder digs up the file and he and Scully fly off to Idaho, where super-secret Ellis Air Base is located.

Before they do, however, we meet Deep Throat, who claims he wants to help Mulder and warns him off the case.

In Idaho, the only people that will talk to the agents are the wife of Col. Budahas, locals that may or may not have seen unidentified flying objects and a couple of stoner kids that illegally enter the air base to watch the 'light show'. This marks the first of many guest actors of note, a category I will call...

Hey, isn't that...?
Seth Green plays one of the kids who apparently know no other form of entertainment. It is, after all, an area that does not show up on any map.

Suddenly, Col. Budahas reappears (in a move Mulder calls a decoy) and cannot remember anything about his former profession as a pilot. His memory appears to have been wiped clean very selectively.

The agents clash with the military, represented by a group of what can only be described as men in black that destroy any evidence they may have gathered (of course!) and tells them to leave town immediately. Scully is ready to pack it in and this is when Mulder ditches her for the first time (and not the last). He reenters the forbidden air base and gets caught.

We then see him strapped down and getting injections and some sort of medical procedure. What follows it the first of many missions of one agent rescuing the other, when Scully forces a man connected with the air base at gunpoint to have Mulder returned. When they reunite, Mulder has no idea how he got to where he is and obviously cannot remember what it was he saw inside the air base.

The episode ends with Mulder out for a run and Deep Throat once again contacting him and warning him that his life is in danger. He identifies himself as a fellow truth seeker.

7/10