Fallen Angel

Mulder meets someone who will become a helpful friend - Max Fenig. ..

TAG LINE
The Truth is out There

SYNOPSIS

When Colonel Calvin Henderson is alerted by the United States Space Surveillance Center that radar tracked an unidentified object as it fell from orbit and crashed in Townsend, Wisconsin, he visits immediately and his team of Blue Berets descend upong the scene. Mulder learns from Deep Throat that Henderson is the premiere reclamations expert for the Air Force and, during the Cold War, Henderson was assigned to prevent technology from downed United States aircraft from falling into Soviet hands. Now, he is head of a crash retrieval team - the Blue Berets. They are organized specifically for the retrieval of extraterrestrial beings. They also have the authority to kill civilians. Here, they were dispatched to retrieve both the UFO and the alien. It is presumed that they obtained the alien’s technology (from the UFO) to freeze time for nine minutes. The Syndicate would later use this in their own alien abductions. The crash site is officially labelled a quarantined area by the government and they attribute it to a toxic chemical spill. Mulder sneaks passed the military units guarding the area and he photographs the wreckage, visible to him as an intense blue light. Once he is found, however, Henderson has him placed under arrest. At the same time, a translucent alien escapes from the crash site, emitting strong bouts of radiation. He is then placed in Scully’s custody and she warns that when an FBI superior, McGrath, learned that he infiltrated the crash site without prior approval, he recommended that a hearing be held to discontinued the X-Files project altogether. With the hearing only one day away, Mulder insists he be given the chance to prove a UFO had crashed in Townsend. Together, Mulder and Scully discover that they have been spied upon by Max Fenig, a member of an organization that tracks UFO sightings - an organization known as NICAP. He acknowledges that he knows all about Mulder, Scully and the X-Files project, having accessed files through the Freedom of Information Act. Max’s recreational vehicle is basicallly a surveillance operation on wheels, in which he plays for Mulder and Scully a recording that he intercepted moments after the UFO crash, in which Deputy Sheriff Jason Wright, who was the first person to arrive at the crash scene, radioed for fire crew backup. When Mulder and Scully approach Mrs. Wright for information, she refuses to talk. Dr. Jeffrey Oppenheim, who examined Deputy Wright, agrees to be interviewed. He examined the bodies of Wright and the firemen, all of whom died from severe radiation burns the likes of which he has never seen before. Suddenly, the bodies of several soldiers are rushed through the hospital’s corridors, each exhibiting the same burns described only moments earlier by Oppenheim. Shorthanded, Oppenheim enlists Scully’s medical expertise. Meanwhile, Mulder aids Max Fenig when he suffers a seizure. Max blames the episode on epilepsy, but Mulder notices a diamond-shaped scar behind Max’s ear - a scar that is linked to UFO and alien abductions. Mulder reports this to Scully, but before Scully has a chance to examine Max for herself, he disappears from his vehicle. The agents track him to a warehouse, where they discover Henderson and his Blue Berets surrounding the building. Before Mulder can save Max, he disappears in a blinding blue light - the victim of an alien abduction by the translucent alien. At the hearing, Mulder defends his action as unorthodox, but necessary, given that the toxic spill was a government conspiracy. McGrath’s decision to fire Mulder and terminate the X-Files project is overruled by Deep Throat. Deep Throat informs McGrath that he likes to keep his friends close ... but his enemies closer.

MY THOUGHTS

This is pretty much a classic episode from the first season,it introduces us to Max Fennig who shows up later in the fourth season,in Tempis fugit/Max. I really liked this episode its one of he best from the first season.

MY RATING
8.5/ 10