The X-Files
(1993– )
When Scully's comatose body is discovered at a local hospital, Mulder suspects the government was responsible for her disappearance.
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Title: One Breath (11 Nov 1994)
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| David Duchovny | ... | ||
| Gillian Anderson | ... | ||
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Sheila Larken | ... | |
| Melinda McGraw | ... | ||
| Mitch Pileggi | ... | ||
| Steven Williams | ... | ||
| William B. Davis | ... | ||
| Don S. Davis | ... |
Captain William Scully
(as Don Davis)
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| Jay Brazeau | ... |
Dr. Daly
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Nicola Cavendish | ... |
Nurse Owens
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| Lorena Gale | ... |
Nurse Wilkins
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| Bruce Harwood | ... | ||
| Dean Haglund | ... | ||
| Tom Braidwood | ... | ||
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Ryan Michael | ... | |
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Everyone, including Mulder and Scully's mother, had pretty well given Scully up for dead when she suddenly reappears at a Washington hospital. Details are scanty - the hospital can't really say how she got there - but she is comatose and on a ventilator. With the help of the Lone Gunmen, Mulder learns that her DNA has been altered and that her immune system has shut down. The mysterious Mr. X fails to make contact with him and Mulder hen goes after the Cigarette Smoking Man, ready to do whatever is necessary to save his friend and partner. Written by garykmcd
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11 November 1994 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 2, North Shore Studios, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada See more »Company Credits
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Scully: [smiles] Not Fox. Mulder.
[opens her eyes]
Mulder: How you feeling?
Scully: [suddenly, apologetically] Mulder, I don't remember anything. After Duane Barry...
Mulder: [shakes his head] Doesn't... doesn't matter.
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David Duchovny was so amazed by the fantastic performance of Gillian Anderson in The X-Files: Beyond the Sea (1994), showing Scully's feelings about losing her father, that he asked the writers for an episode with emotions like that for him. The result was One Breath, in which Mulder displays his feelings for loosing Scully. See more »Goofs
Agent Mulder signs his resignation, but his signature is totally different from the signature on his badge we see in the intro. See more »Quotes
Margaret Scully: Hello, Fox.Scully: [smiles] Not Fox. Mulder.
[opens her eyes]
Mulder: How you feeling?
Scully: [suddenly, apologetically] Mulder, I don't remember anything. After Duane Barry...
Mulder: [shakes his head] Doesn't... doesn't matter.
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This is the last part of a trilogy of sorts that started with Duane Barry.
Touted as a character-driven triumph for the show, for my taste this plays like better-than-average soap, but still dull as dishwater. The X-file problem is that there is no multifaceted vision behind the whole, oh there is some noodling with dreams in this episode and the usual conspiracy that goes nowhere and we're supposed to find exciting and 'deep', but what we see in any given portion of this is crushingly pedantic.
You'll see no better example of what I'm talking about than in Scully's deathbed dreams; Scully on the boat is certainly a memorable image, but the whole layering is trite, we know exactly what is the dream's distance from reality, who is dreaming and what it means, all perfectly clear which defeats the point of wanting to know.
Further proof; the episode ends with the usual 'we have no such person working here' twist.