We've seen three episodes so far. None of them are classics, I wouldn't rank any of them as top episodes. Episode 3 is the best, but the mood never reaches the level of creepiness that the original run did so well. Check out my X-files mini-series recaps.
Mulder and Scully. |
The third episode is the best of this season, but it never felt dark enough to compare to the original series run. I never got away from the feeling that the monster was always a man in a lizard costume.
A city official named Cutler is forcing homeless off the street. When Cutler goes up to his office, a strange looking guy appears on the street after a garbage truck stops for a minute. A shadow appears at Cutler's door after his lights go out and phone cuts out. At this point Cutler pulls out a revolver from his desk drawer. Did hey really have an unsecured, loaded weapon in his desk drawer? That's got to be some kind of violation.
Cutler gets I ripped apart, literally. The added gore still surprises me. The trash man walked barefoot on broken glass after the door exploded and then ripped Cutler's arms off. Trash Man tosses the arms into a garbage truck and then hops inside. Roll the theme song.
The Trash Man cometh. |
The scene of crime has cameras that were knocked out of place with no help of identification. Very convenient for the perpetrator. Mulder finds a used band aid stuck to his shoe and saves it, for science I assume.
AT the hospital, Scully
works in her son William again. Is there going to be any payoff to
that? He's mentioned often and even imagined in episode two. Scully is upset to learn her mom
changed her living will to do not resuscitate.
School board president Nancy Huff is arguing with another city official Landry. She doesn't want the homeless moved to a vacant hospital as proposed, as that puts them within two blocks of a school. She posits one of the homeless people killed Cutler, and that puts the children at risk. A homeless man interrupts the conversation to tell Mulder "Band aid nose man." How convenient. The graffiti near the crime scene has also disappeared.
Mulder took the band aid to the lab, but it is completely clean. The Material is neither organic nor inorganic.
The street graffiti that disappeared was taken. Two guys cut a portion of the billboard to resell it to an art gallery. The image
actually disappears this time and the two art thieves are killed by Trash Man. The blank canvas is signed in the corner as Trash Man. Why
did Trash Man rip second guy apart but not the first. What does he do with bodies? Where does this trash truck go?
This episode feels like a traditional monster of the week, though all of the episodes move quicker and don't create the mood the old ones did. It doesn't spend enough time giving you that feeling of unease.
Nancy Huff is playing an old timey downtown song that lets you know something bad will happen. Trash Man appears. Who drives Trash Man's truck? The truck appears outside of lady's house. When it pulls away, Trash Man appears. Is he decomposing or what? He wears a bandaid
on his nose. Why? Is it because trash smells bad? What is the method to his
killing? He appears inside the house and then outside within seconds. He throws some of her in the trash amd some in the truck, jumping back in
again.
Scully's mom dies after telling Mulder her son's name is William too. Giving up her son for adoption is weighing heavily on Scully.
The lab is able to determine from where the paint from the Trash Man signature was obtained. Scully's has super fast internet on her phone. She knows the paint store that sells the exclusive paint in seconds. We get a heels and a back in the day joke in one line, how quanit.
They
follow the buyer of the paint to a rundown, abandoned house . He points them to the basement where
they see a guy that looks kind of like trash man but apparently blind.
They find an artist and his studio in the basement. The artist insists on no lights. A
sculpture of a head has a band aid on the nose. The artist insists if I cant see them, and they can't see me, I'm safe.
The artist claims he willed the trash man to existence. The emotion popped into the artists head to use violence, and now trash man uses it, killing people. The artist talks about responsibility and trash. People throw things away and then it's not their problem. When it's out of sight, it's out of mind.
The Trash Man sculpture. |
Scully sees flashbacks of William's birth. The trash analogy connects with her, making her feel bad about giving her son up for adoption, like somehow she ducked responsibility.
Landry
transplants the homeless to hospital. He smells trash and then the chaos of
the hospital subsides. He's killed by Trash Man as Mulder and Scully
are only seconds away but see no perpetrator exit the room.
The next scene depicts the artist leaving the abandoned house. His Trash Man sculpture now a smiley face, though there is a trash man mural on an exterior wall.
Scullys
feels responsible for the son she gave up for adoption. She wants to know he is
okay. She wonders if he thinks about her. How does he feels about what happened? She is plagued by these unanswered questions.
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