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Paranoia, is that what it is?

Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders committed by ordinary citizens who report hallucinating images that trigger the violence.

Delusions are being caused by a hidden signal being passed through television, via a secret device in cable box

Scully watches the TV tapes all night, paranoia and delusions kick in

Scully's mom stands in front of Mulder when Scully is freaking out and aiming her gun at him

The signal makes you see your "worst fear", so Scully's worst fear is that Mulder would betray her!! 😭

We learn that Mulder is red/green colorblind, and that made him unaffected by the signal

X tells Mulder "he failed" because he took too long to find evidence, while he was looking for Scully

Score: 10/10

Watch it? Yes!! I personally love this one, but I should also mention that I'm a huge sucker for episodes where Scully is off the rails and/or vulnerable in any way. The "case" itself is just a better version of Blood from Season 2.

I just watched thirty-six hours of Bernard Shaw and Bobbie Batista, I'm about ready to kill somebody too.

so when scully comes to her house after mulder told her that scully's gone missing & they aren't exactly sure what happened, and scully is ranting to her about mulder deceiving her and abducting her and putting a chip in her neck — she tried to deal with it on her own, talk her daughter down until mulder wouldn't let her do it alone. she stands in front of mulder to stop her daughter who she knows is not in her right mind. she's protecting mulder, but so much more than that she's protecting scully, the only daughter she has left who rarely turns to her mother for anything, who keeps her own counsel and only came to her twice in the last year. both times because of mulder. maggie scully is under no illusions of what's between her daughter & mulder, and she knows how important scully's job & partnership are to her regardless. maggie can imagine how the weight of killing or hurting mulder would destroy scully. she already shot him to protect him, and i think that was incredibly hard for her to do.

Visuals appreciation post

The X-Files • Wetwired

“What if this video signal somehow turned these people’s anxieties into some kind of dementia, a virtual reality of their own worst nightmares?