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The X Files: Deep Throat (1993) Country of Origin: USA DIRECTION Directed by: Daniel Sackheim CREW PRODUCTION SCRIPT DIRECTION PHOTOGRAPHY EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION MUSIC SOUND COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP SPECIAL EFFECTS VISUAL EFFECTS TITLES AND OPTICALS DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION OTHER CREW LOCATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS STUNTS CASTING CAST Starring Guest Starring Co-Starring Featuring PLOT SUMMARY Mulder and Scully investigate the apparent kidnapping of a former test pilot named Budahas by his own superiors, the latest in a string of pilots to suffer dramatic personality changes before disappearing. Despite warnings to keep away from a mysterious man who seems to be trying to help him, Mulder pursues the case to Ellens Air Force base in Idaho where he and Scully meet both a distraught Mrs Budahas and a curious local newspaper reporter, Mossinger. Mulder becomes increasingly convinced that the pilots were all involved in secret Air Force tests using captured alien technology, though Scully disagrees, suggesting instead that the men are simply suffering stress related disorders. When Budahas unexpectedly returns home, albeit with his memory shot to pieces, it seems that the case is over. But Mulder refuses to let it lie and returns to Ellens where he discovers a strange triangular craft hovering overhead... CAPSULE REVIEW Even more so than Pilot, Deep Throat launched The X Files down the mysterious path it would tread throughout its first season. By the fade out, Mulder has had his memory tampered with, Scully is beginning to get the first inkling of just how much she's being used by her superiors to discredit Mulder and the pair's mysterious new contact is issuing dire warnings about the continued safety of the two FBI agents. The paranoia has been stepped up several notches and Deep Throat paints a horrific portrait of the American military machine as an interfering, omnipotent and authoritarian organisation riding roughshod over concepts of the law and justice. Deep Throat himself remained an enigma throughout the entire series, returning time and again - even after his death at the end of Season One - to hint at knowledge of extraterrestrial excursions on Earth while deliberately remaining morally ambiguous - is he working to assist Mulder or simply trying to confuse him, throw him off important scents? Though it never quite recovers from its punchy intro sequence, Deep Throat remains one of the most important and memorable of the first season episodes, establishing many of the preoccupations that were to inform the entire first season run of 24 episodes. AVAILABILITY Germany Japan UK USA REFERENCES OTHER SOURCES screen KEYWORDS conspiracies, experimental aircraft, fbi, military, teenagers, ufos
Last Updated: 13 November, 2008
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