#bad blood episode

[atomic-chronoscaph]

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson - The X-Files (1998)

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next (tw: blood)

[ewwww-what]

Nobody is as excited about the preview as I am. I have paragraphs.

[ovenproofowl]

bad blood is one hell of an episode. it literally opens with mulder straight-up murdering a regular teenager via stake-through-the-heart and he and scully are like pretty sure the FBI is going to be sued and they're going to be doing some serious jail time. except both of them remember the story differently. scully's story is predictably logical and straight-forward. the killer was drugging his victims before bleeding them out, mimicking a vampire attack by wearing fake fangs (which are proven to be fake. this is crucial. this kid was wearing plastic fangs when mulder stabbed him. in the chest. with a wooden stake.) what is also crucial is that mulder was a victim of this murderer's attack and so he was tripping hard when scully intercepts the killer. mulder - whilst tripping balls - is convinced that the killer has glowing eyes and flew across the room before running out the door. and so - whilst tripping balls - he gives chase and ends up stabbing the kid through the heart with a wooden stake.

and of course this is the x files and so while scully and mulder are arguing over who gave who the hardest time in their percieved series of events, it turns out that mulder was right. the kid was a vampire and the stake didn't actually kill him. the fangs were fake because he was copying the sorts of vampires that you see in books and on tv. he was a real vampire.

and it's not just the kid. there are bunches of vampires, including the sheriff. the whole town are just. vampires. the lot of 'em. and the second they're found out, they just up and leave without a trace.

sometimes the extent to which mulder turns out to be right in this show is borderline ludicrous, it's amazing, I love it. but what was even better was that the biggest point of contention between scully and mulder's stories wasn't even the vampire thing, it was whether or not the sheriff was actually hot.

[clo-thespin]

dude i dont think people that dont watch x files understand that its not just 'that show about aliens'. the x files is fucking insane. i mean, yeah, theres episodes about aliens but theres also episodes about:

cockroaches, robots, shit, and entomologists. or, more specifically, a town thats been infested with cockroaches by the government and is being observed by an entomologist named bambi. and in this town, people are dying in ways that appear to be caused by the cockroaches but really its just an allergic reaction, an aneurysm, drugs, and a heart attack. and then a fucking manure plant blows up and covers everyone in cow shit. oh and also some of the cockroaches are robotic, so :)

a man whose shadow vaporises people. thats- thats pretty much it.

a prehistoric lake monster, moby dick, and the search for the truth (or a white whale, whats the difference?) the lake monster is eating people and dogs :(, mulder and scully get trapped on a rock in the 'middle' of the lake, and the monster is really just an alligator.

cher, frankenstein's monster, and peanut butter. this episode's in black and white btw. someones going around and hotboxing peoples houses with animal tranqs and then impregnating peoples wives. this 'someone' is actually a man whose been mutated due to experiments done on him by his father. mulder and scully take this guy to a cher concert at the end. (one of the best scenes, iykyk)

[freckleslikestars]

(some of) my favourite lines from The X Files 5.12 Bad Blood

[starlightseraph]

the episode ever

(series 5, episode 12 • “Bad Blood”)

[brainrot-stitch]

Jrwi brainrot is real. Angelstone save me. Poly pd save me. Platonic ghostkicks save me. Undersea arc wya. Fizzfangs/monster energy save me. Armored pheasant save me. Whatever tf jay n lizzie is called save me. I'm rotting away but so is my mind jrwi save me also IM SO EXCITED FOR WONDERLUST WHAT THE FLIP !! Anyways I recently finished prime defenders, am currently relistening to apotheosis, and will probably resume where I'm at on riptide soon. Maybe catch up on the suckening or relisten to bitb, if I'm feeling silly. Who knows

[theduckwithears]

Bitch literally said “oh no my girlfriend is mad at me I hope I die”

[cutemothman]

The X-Files 30th Anniversary Celebration // Day 1: Favorite Episode

5.12 Bad Blood

[aieaiedro]

still on my bs about lalo and howard enjoying haunting the lab

[sihtriggyr]

House of the Dragon S01x05: Daemon Targaryen.

[spacemoth-matt]

I know the doctor was grieving rose in s3 but come on my guy you did not need to treat martha like that like she walked the earth for a year for you + the entirety of the family of blood, she should've run him over with the tardis after that honestly

[feluka]

that comment is really making me lose my mind imagine writing so much with full confidence about something you know absolutely nothing about. average terf intelligence level i guess.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

boss lady doodle that i started during cringetober but didnt finish (i rewatched way of the househusband yet again.) nya

[sourtomatola]

I love uncomfortable scenes. (Not the humorous kind. this kind)