Hell Money

(I sing the title of this episode to the tune of 'Red Money' by David Bowie. Just thought I'd share that...)

The most disturbing part about this episode is that I totally believe in this game.

Special guest starring Lucy Liu, Chinese CSM (from Balls of Fury), and Chinese Val Kilmer. They didn't even need Mulder and Scully in this episode, except to act all racist and suspect Chinese Val Kilmer of being involved in the human-body-part-trafficking.

Well, they weren't wrong though, were they? Does that send a good message about racism?

That said, we have some great quotes here.

S: (of the first victim) He was a dishwasher in Chinatown.

M: How many dishes do you have to break before your boss tosses you in an oven? 

M: Looks like somebody was trying to get two burials for the price of one. 

(Ok I'm sorry, that sounds exactly like the kind of thing my old boss Ping would try to do.)

S: Do you know how much the human body is worth, Mulder?

M: (smiles and eyes her) Depends on the body.

Then they light heartedly joke about leaving hearts in San Francisco. Oh, boo :P Probably one of my favourite autopsy scenes, so let's throw one more pic in there.

I even get a stakeout. Nothing really important happened here, other than.. well.. confined space. 

I also love the bit of dialogue when Scully essentially questions Chinese Val Kilmer as if he is a suspect, just because he's Chinese (which is awful).

Chao: You might see the face of a Chinese man here but let me tell you something -- they don't see the same face. They see the face of a cop... American-born Chinese, ABC. To them, I’m just as white as you are.

Then he guilt trips them when he hands over a helpful piece of evidence, saying

Chao: I just happened to run across it while I was sitting there twiddling my thumbs. 

M & S follow Chao, and they find the operating room below the place where the Game is played, and arrest Chao for his involvement, along with Chinese CSM (who I secretly love in this episode).

Great idea to have this underground game being run by a very similar cancer-man (and boy he's got the speech patterns and mannerisms down)- there's one in every culture I guess.