S6.E21

Field Trip

Episode aired May 9, 1999
TV-14
45m

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Conspiracy Thriller Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

The skeletal remains of a young couple are found after they have been missing for only three days in an area known for UFO activity. Mulder and Scully have different experiences in the inves... Read allThe skeletal remains of a young couple are found after they have been missing for only three days in an area known for UFO activity. Mulder and Scully have different experiences in the investigation but nothing is quite as it seems.The skeletal remains of a young couple are found after they have been missing for only three days in an area known for UFO activity. Mulder and Scully have different experiences in the investigation but nothing is quite as it seems.

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Trivia
For their rescue scene, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson spent most of a day in pits covered in mud and yellow sludge. Fortunately, they were both wearing wetsuits underneath their costumes.

Goofs
Both Agent Scully and the coroner repeatedly refer to the fungus as a plant. Fungi do not belong to the kingdom Plantae; they belong to their own, and are even considered to be more closely related to animals than to plants. While neither of them are botanists or mycologists by profession, they would have learned this fact in a basic undergraduate general biology course.

Quotes
Mulder: Brown Mountain, Scully, that doesn't ring a bell?
Scully: No...
Mulder: Brown Mountain lights? It's a famous atmospheric phenomenon dating back nearly 700 years, witnessed by thousands of people, back to the Cherokee Indians. Strange multicolored lights are seen to dance above the peak of the mountain. There's been no geological explanation, no scientific credible explanation at all.
Scully: And, what does that have to do with these two?
Mulder: Well, as I said, there is no credible scientific explanation, but there are those of us that believe that these strange multicolored lights are really...
Scully: UFOs. Extra-terrestrial visitors from beyond who apparently have nothing better to do than buzz one mountain over and over again for 700 years.
Mulder: It sounds like crap when you say it.

Connections
Features StarCraft (1998)

Soundtracks
The X-Files
Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Beal

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Dream trap

A good episode in my opinion. In fact, each episode in the x files deserves a comment. Episode 21 of season 6 is one of the most successful. Keep the viewer in suspense and make him a kind of witness of the dream that happens in the dream. I talked metaphorically. Not all episodes of this series are based only on psychological dramas, but this episode does it. Episode 21 is very similar to successful psychological films and if in just 45 minutes of view I liked, I think if it had a 2 hour stretch it would have been a successful movie.