The X-Files
(1993– )
Scully believes that the pyschic predictions of a death row inmate are the only hope in apprehending a vicious murderer.
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Title: Beyond the Sea (07 Jan 1994)
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Cast
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Captain William Scully
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Lawrence King-Phillips | ... |
Lucas Henry
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Agent Thomas
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Don MacKay | ... |
Warden Joseph Cash
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Liz Hawley
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Jim Summers
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Randy Lee | ... |
Paramedic
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Len Rose | ... |
E.R. Doctor
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After two college students are kidnapped on the one year anniversary of a similar kidnapping at a different school, Mulder is convinced that they are dealing with a serial killer. He's ready to deal with the case on his own as Scully has recently lost her dearly beloved father but she insists on working her way through this difficult time. Mulder is annoyed when a self-declared psychic who is soon to be executed in the gas chamber, Luther Lee Boggs, offers to give them information about the case in return for a permanent stay of execution. Mulder is convinced he's a sham as far as being a psychic goes and is convinced that Boggs is orchestrating the kidnappings using outsiders. Scully, who has had her own encounter with the supernatural recently, isn't so sure and takes Boggs far more seriously. Written by garykmcd
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7 January 1994 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Ramada Hotel, 435 West Pender Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada See more »Company Credits
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Music by Charles Trenet and Albert Lasry
French lyrics by Charles Trenet
English lyrics by Jack Lawrence
Performed by Bobby Darin
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Second utterance of the line "I want to believe". The first was nine episodes earlier The X-Files: Conduit (1993). See more »Goofs
Boggs has a tattoo of a pair of six-sided dice on the side of his neck. One of the dice has the 6 and the 1 faces adjacent; on an actual die, these faces would be opposite each other. See more »Soundtracks
Beyond the SeaMusic by Charles Trenet and Albert Lasry
French lyrics by Charles Trenet
English lyrics by Jack Lawrence
Performed by Bobby Darin
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This may prove to be a turning point in the show.
So far X-Files has been a mixed bag, but scrap the often silly 'monster' aspect and at root what is worth investigating in the show is the noir notion of an extralogical reality that comes alive according to the narrator's desire. So far Scully's raison d'etre had been to provide the logical counterpoint to spooky Mulder, inserting again and again the possibility of logical explanation to phenomena.
Here she has her own breakthrough, tied to loss and bereavement of her dead father. Usually in the context of the show we have 'hard' presentation of extralogical forces as 'real' outside of mind, but for the first time we have some 'soft' ambiguity; the thing may be only as real as the story we choose to remember, and yet no less ontologically real for that.
Anchored on one end in a powerhouse performance by Brad Dourif as spiritual conduit (or charlatan), on another we have what another reviewer astutely noted as the Twin Peaks connection. I did make a note of resemblance in my post for the Pilot, so it's nice to see it confirmed here.