The X Files: Ghost in the Machine

At the beginning, Mulder loses his friend (former partner?) Jerry to the machine in the title. He is inside an elevator, hurrying after one Brad Wilczek, who created the machine that runs the entire high rise the two are inside. Wilczek went in to destroy his creation, because he realized that it got out of his hands. The machine now thinks and runs the place, trashing the agent by dropping the elevator.

While the government tries to understand the machine and get any information concerning it out of its creator, while Mulder wants to help Wilczek destroy his invention by planting a virus in the mainframe. He appears to be pretty much on his own until Scully comes to his aid because her computer has been accessed from the machine controlled building. They sneak in but are immediately detected thanks to the elaborate security system. When they are stuck in the stair well and Scully tries to get in through the air ventilation system, the machine tries to blow her into the massive ventilators.

Mulder, meanwhile, is let into the offices by the apparent nightwatchman Peterson, who pulls a gun on Mulder as soon as he realizes what is about to go down. Peterson really works for an agency himself, tasked to figure out how the machine works. Then - as happens so often - Scully comes to the rescue and Mulder gets to install the virus.

In the aftermath, Wilczek disappears. Mulder meets up with Deep Throat for any sort of information who simply tells him that 'they' can do anything they want. In the last scene, a short time before the remaining parts are about to be scrapped, we see the lights of the machine come back on again.

6/10