Rush
7x06
"Tony in the Woods with a Flashlight!"
I like this episode. I've probably only watched it two or three times. After all, it is part of the seventh season, and we must punish it for that.
It opens with a boy cautiously approaching a wooded area. His two friends appear and they speak of secrecy (I love talking like an old book). A police car drives into the scene. The boy, Tony, turns to look at the approaching police officer. He turns back to look at his friends, but they are outta there! Anyway, the officer starts questioning Tony on why he's out in the woods in the middle of the night on private property. The cop is going back to his car, Tony turns around "*whew*." All of a sudden, he hears a scream. He looks back and the sitting-pretty-little-policeman lying in the road....dead (dun dun DUN).
Well, nice happy dark little opener...especially after the sixth season! Mulder and Scully move onto the case. Mulder feels that Tony didn't murder the Deputy [Dog] ["My dad's the sheriff and I shoved a flashlight through the deputy"], as he is under suspicion for. Mulder shows skeptical Scully the body; she's shocked [gasp!]. The cop had his face smashed in with his own flashlight. The impact was so great that the dude's glasses were in the back of his head. Maybe it was just hindsight...sorry, very bad joke, but I couldn't resist.
I'm sorry, but the "old Mulder and Scully" jokes just get old after a bit. I mean, it's not like they're ANCIENT! And I'm a bratty high school student, so I know who I would judge as being old and whatnot. Whoever wrote the script [which if I were any sort of good reviewer, I would bother to find this out, but I won't], needs to majorly brush up on their hip, high-school vernacular. No one has used the totally lame term "Betty" since [gag] Clueless. I think someone on the staff may be a bit clueless for even thinking that old, stupid terms like that would still be in use today!
Ick, bad accents in this episode, too. I guess the kid is supposed to be from Philly, or something. And the mom is like doing a really annoying, BAD Tennessee one or something, isn't she? It looks like Mommy is trying to ham up her 15 seconds of screen time as much as possible.
Also, do they think teenagers driving fast is unusual? I mean, yeah Tony. "Ahh! Slow down! You're freaking me out, man!" Apparently, this is the first time Tony has ever been in a car with a teenager. "Maybe Mamma can go down back to the good ol' homestead and wrangle you a nahce Caddy to drive 'roun' in." I don' reckon I got no reason to kill nobody, hmm hmm hmm. [SLING BLADE! Billy Bob!]
Oh, and exactly how long could that ancient teacher survive?! I mean, I've seen watches die faster than him! Slight bit of overkill.
Hey! Ooo! Max has two Doors posters up on his door! Awesome. The one says "No One Here Gets Out Alive." That's from Five to One. I'm SO scary, sometimes.
I must say that the last scene with the kids is very cool, even if it did rip off of Matrix garbage.
Highly cool episode. I like the Cave O' Seizures. :)
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