The X Files: Firewalker (1994)

Date of Original Broadcast: 18 November 1994
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Ten Thirteen Productions / Twentieth Century Fox Television
Executive Producer: Chris Carter
Co-Executive Producers; James Wong, Glen Morgan, R.W. Goodwin
Supervising Producer: Howard Gordon
Producers: Joseph Patrick Finn, Paul Brown, David Nutter
Co-Producer: Paul Rabwin
Associate Producer: Crawford Hawkins
Production Manager: J.P. Finn
Production Coordinator: Anita Truelove
Assistant Production Coordinator: Joanne Service

SCRIPT
Script: Howard Gordon
Creator: Chris Carter

DIRECTION
Director: David Nutter
1st Assistant Director: Tom Braidwood
2nd Assistant Director: Collin Leadlay

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John S. Bartley
Camera Operator: Rod Pridy
Focus Puller: Marty McInally
Chief Lighting Technician: David Tickell
Key Grip: Al Campbell
Processing: Gastown Film Labs
Telecine: Gastown Post and Transfer

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Heather MacDougall
Assistant Editor: Sue Kesler
Post Production Supervisor: Kenneth Dennis
Electronic Assembly: Encore Video

MUSIC
Music: Mark Snow
Scoring Mixer: Larold Rebhun
Music Editor: Jeff Charbonneau

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Michael Williamson
Re-Recording Mixers: David John West, Nello Torri, Craig Hunter
Supervising Sound Editor: Thierry J. Couturier
Post Production Sound: West Productions Inc

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Hair: Malcolm Marsden
Key Make Up: Fern Levin
Costume Designer: Larry Wells
Assistant Costume Designer: Jenni Gullett

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Key Special Effects Make Up: Fern Levin
Special Effects Make Up: Toby Lindala

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: David Gauthier

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Producer: Mat Beck
Main Title Sequence: Castle / Bryant / Johnsen

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Graeme Murray
Assistant Art Director: Greg Loewen
Set Decorator: Shirley Inget
Property Master: Ken Hawryliw
Constuction Coordinator: Rob Maier

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Patricia Barry
Transportation Coordinator: Bob Bowe

LOCATIONS
Locations: British Columbia, Canada
Location Manager: Louisa Gradnitzer

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Ken Kirzinger

CASTING
Casting: Rick Millikan
Vancouver Casting: Lynne Carrow
Original Casting: Randy Stone
Casting Associate (Vancouver): Coreen Mayrs

CAST
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
Bradley Whitford (Dr Daniel Trepkos)
Leland Orser (Jason Ludwig)
Shawnee Smith (Jesse O'Neil)
Tuck Milligan (Dr Adam Pierce)
Hiro Kanagawa (Peter Tanaka)
David Kaye (reporter)
David Lewis (Vosberg)
Torben Rolfsen (technician)

SUMMARY

A hi-tech research project based on the side of a volcano has met with disaster. Mulder and Scully are called in to find out what happened. Why did the project team apparently kill each other? And what was the experimental Firewalker robot doing inside the volcano itself? They discover that a hitherto unknown, silicon-based lifeform is living inside the volcano, gets inside the bodies humans and bursts from their necks when the incubation period is up.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Following in the footsteps of One Breath was going to be a hard task and sadly, Firewalker just wasn't up to the challenge. Little more than a lazy rehash of the first season story Ice, it's a badly thought out and crudely plotted piece of fluff that simply couldn't live up to all that had gone before. Though Nutter's direction is as fluid and atmospheric as you'd expect ((the nocturnal chase through the woods is particularly impressive), the narrative is simply too old hat to involve the audience in anything other than apathy. This was particularly regrettable as this was the first 'proper' X Files of Season Two, the first not to be tied in some way to the ongoing arc.

AVAILABILITY

Germany
DVD Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Japan
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (PCBP-00065)

UK
Television Distributors: BBC1; BBC2; Sky One
Video Distributor: Fox Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Encore
DVD Distributor: Fox Home Video

USA
Television Distributors: Fox
Video Distributor: Fox Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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KEYWORDS

comas, conspiracies, doctors, fbi, hospitals, nurses, secret agents

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008