Eve

In my eyes, one of the classic episodes! It's creepy! It has twins! It takes you all kinds of places you don't expect!

To begin with, they make it look like a vampire episode. A man has two puncture wounds on his neck and is found drained of blood, then we learn an identical murder occurs at the same time on the other side of the country. In fact, Mulder believes it's related to cattle mutilations (and Scully thinks that's worth teasing him about). The two of them seem surprisingly lighthearted about the case to begin with, until it gets really messed up and we discover it has nothing to do with vampires or aliens, but actually a government experiment with cloning! Cool!

DT: "The boys were called Adam and the girls were called Eve".

Naturally. But it is good to see DT in this episode too. As we'll see later in the series, experience with cloned humans will come in handy when they are manufacturing alien-human hybrids.

Charming part of the episode: M & S are hanging out in Mulder's room (uh, as always?), and Scully picks up the phone, and tells Mulder it's just a couple of clicks, must be a wrong number. Mulder knows it's Deep Throat trying to contact him, and he jumps into action. LOL suddenly Mulder is physically, and not at all subtly, rushing her out of the room.



S: "Do you have a girl coming over?"
M: "What's a girl?"

So the two creepy twin girls are being kidnapped by one of the grown up 'Eves'. What no one knows (but Scully suspected briefly) is that they orchestrated the two identical patricides. Naturally, they kill the Eve that has them hostage, and set up the scene as if they were all supposed to drink poison, and that there was a second Eve who escaped. You know, they are pretty smart girls, and they probably would have gotten away with all of it if they hadn't been homicidally greedy, and tried to kill Mulder and Scully the same way.



Other charming moment: Mulder realizes what the girls have done, and runs back out of the restaurant calling for Scully "...uh...I just wanted to hold the door open for you."
*snort*

I love the weirded out look she gives him. Then he knocks her drink out of her hand, and the weirded out look turns into the 'WTF Mulder?' look. Hilarious.



I think it's worth mentioning that I think this episode is super eerie, and I love how it's shot. I do, I love all of the shadows, especially in Eve 6's cell. I think of this as one of the stronger season one episodes, for sure. Lots of cool plot twists, but not the kind where you feel like you're getting a sledgehammer to your head. (In the realm of X-F anyway) pretty believable twists.