Fire

Most people think that their exes are complete psychos.

Was your ex psycho enough to break into your parked car, leave you a tape implying that you have just triggered an explosive, and then rip your door open making you think you are going to blow up? No? OK, then Mulder has you beat for craziest ex ever!


What this episode manages to accomplish, is let us know that Scully's apparent 'crush' on Mulder is not entirely in our heads, because she is crazy jealous in this episode. And teases Mulder mercilessly.

Any way, so Phoebe the Ex shows up and asks for help on this case, which mostly involves protecting a rich couple with poor survival instincts, and their two sons. Mulder tells Scully she's "off the hook" on this one, claiming to not want her to have to deal with Phoebo's mind games. (Ya-huh...) And then confesses his life long fear of fire. So.. he'll go it alone on this one.

So Scully does what any other girl would have done; she gets herself involved anyway! :P When she cracks the case, she calls Mulder, who's ended up in Boston. "I'm coming up there", she says. Mulder, hoping to score with his ex says "uh, I'm anticipating having my hands full".



Scully goes to Boston anyway. She saves the day when she notices a fire on the 14th floor of the hotel; the floor the kids are on. In a dashing display of bravery, Mulder runs up the stairs to rescue them. Then remembering his fear of fire, he starts coughing, falls to the floor, crawls towards the kids' room... and turns around and crawls away before totally collapsing. Lame! ("brave brave brave brave Sir Robin ran away"?)

Because she actually cares, and isn't playing him (unlike someone else in this episode) Scully comes to his rescue, then sits with him in his room until he finally wakes up. "Where's Phoebe?" he asks.



*facepalm*.... you are an idiot.

Blah blah blah, Scully solves the mystery... blahblahblah... house goes up in flames, Mulder finally finds a backbone and saves the kids. Actually what bothers me the most about this ep is the two rich parents: the insufferably annoying wife, and the worthless cheater of a husband (guess who he's caught with! That cheater of an Ex, Phoebe! Looks like Mulder's been had once again- he has bad taste in women!). Plus, when their house burns down, everybody is in the bedroom watching the walls catch on fire. When they finally think they should probably exit the burning house, they all run downstairs to the front door... then yell "what about the children?!?!" who are still upstairs in their bedroom (they live in a mansion but the two boys couldn't have separate rooms? Not fair).

I can't imagine any parents, even bad ones, would run from a fire, past their kids' bedroom, and not go in to retrieve them first. Maybe these guys deserved to burn :P Mulder runs back the way they came to go get them.

What I enjoyed most about this episode might actually be the bad guy Cecil, who is utterly charming and totally funny. And kind of reminds me of Robbie Williams :P
Also, I just like this actor, who you may remember from other sci fi shows such as BSG, and Firefly :)




Which is not to say that I didn't enjoy Scully being all catty. She cracks me up.



Phoebe: (to Mulder) "She hates me."




M: "I was merely extending a professional courtesy."
S: "Oh is that what you were extending?"