#the x-filees 6x03

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the bermuda triangle ep in season 6 is so funny to me because scully must be an absolute NIGHTMARE to work with for literally everyone all the time. she’s just constantly lying and disregarding everything everyone says i love her

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This is how the episode went, right

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s6 episode 3 "triangle" thoughts

okay. i have been told that this one is good. and i recognize the title of this episode from a piece of art i saw once where scully had a dress on. which made me need to catch my breath.

so. i am excited!!

let us read the episode description... hmm. i was one of those kids who was really worried about the bermuda triangle when i was little, so this might be healing for me. or make things worse.

mulder… don’t piss me off again! i still haven't forgiven you for that comment!!

ehehehehheeee, i’m excited!!!

post-episode thoughts: i am typing this after just having finished the episode, and i am feeling secret emotions i did not know existed an hour or so ago. wow. the nature of reality is that it can be SO profound. and i don’t even fully know what did or didn’t happen, which i believe was cultivated intentionally, but the friendships we made along the way were so real.

mulder, i will figure out what your deal is. scully, i will hold and cherish you forever.

we open on some waaaater. it seems a shipwreck has taken place!! NO, IS THAT DEAD MULDER? COME ON NOW, I DON’T WANT THAT. 

okay. intro time. so maybe he isn’t dead. maybe he was napping. underwater. 

SHORTENED INTRO AND NEW WORDS!!!!! “die wahrheit ist irgendwo da draußen” okaaaaay! i don’t speak german 💜 but i have a guess as to what that means

(and upon googling it, i was correct... yay! also, someone please appreciate my effort in going to wikipedia and copying and pasting the ß character just so i wouldn't get cancelled by the german speakers of the internet)

they’re pulling him out of the water!!!! and “they” sound like they are from across the pond!! but they are also speaking german, so who knows. whoever “they” are, they sure don’t recognize him.

they’re gonna throw him back overboard!!! but they find his ID and no one has ever heard of the FBI. he is baffled by this. how do you not know about the FBI? well, buddy, from the uniforms these fellows are wearing, i have some theories

the sailors take him to the captain and they’re beating him up!!! no one is bothering to introduce themselves. rude af??

ohhhh, he’s on the queen anne, which is the boat he came looking for!! so now he knows what is afoot. time warp. yeah.

LMAOOOOO he recites the EXACT location of the ship. okay. listen, i haven’t FORGIVEN him, but that is endearing. aww. i love when he nerds out.

ohhh noooo, they tell him it’s 1939 and hitler has just invaded poland and also this boat!! mulder thinks that the members of this ship have popped on over to 1998, but the opposite has happened!!! how is he gonna get out of this one?!

“it’s okay! the war’s over! let ‘em take you to germany, they make nice cars!” <- LMAOOOOO HE IS SO CONVINCED 

absolutely wild thing to say to someone who thinks that the nazis are afoot...

that is a grown man giggling and laughing because his time warp theory came true <3

he goes over to the radio and tries to call for help... and i am again impressed that he knows what he is doing on an old timey radio, but maybe that is a required FBI skill…. but the radio actually says that it *is* september 3rd, 1939, and there is war with germany!!!!

“oh, sh-" oh nooooo…. he has miscalculated……!!!

a german approaches!! it’s so hard to see because everything is SO DARK!! which is a pattern i am noticing after 3 episodes of this season!!! but mulder is hiding!!! and then he sneaks out and beats tf out of the german guy!!!

IT’S SPENDER?????

what. 

is he tripping…..?

you know, logistics of if this is actually happening in canon or merely mulder's head aside, more fight scenes should take place to andrews sisters songs

so mulder steals spender’s german uniform and puts it on, but he cannot respond to the people yelling at him in german!!!! does he have the advantage from studying this particular ship for years?? LMAO yeah, he hid around the corner! don't let anyone tell you that studying the layouts of boats that disappeared decades ago is useless knowledge!

woaaaah, there’s a fancy dance going on somewhere else!!! mulder enters the dance floor in his uniform!!!! and tries to flirt with the singer...

HE FINDS SCULLY!!!! BUT SHE THINKS HE’S A NAZI!!!!!! she has no idea who tf he is even though he is trying to explain. oh my GOD, she says she’s gonna punch him!!!!

oh. i’m blushing… scully in a dress with her hair like that….

the nazis burst in with guns and SHE HAD TO TRANSLATE FOR HIM…… because she knows a little german….

who is this man that she is dancing with?

“yeah, you’re all big men now, but wait until you get to russia! hope you fellas like the cold!” he yells out as they drag him away, and yet again i ask: LMAOOOO, WHAT IS GOING ON?

they’re dragging him to the deck! and the captain is saying he refuses to give up the ship!!! and the germans shoot him!!!

OH SHIT!!! IT’S CSM THAT TOLD HIM TO PULL THE TRIGGER??

i don’t know enough about german to know if he’s delivering those lines authentically, but it sounds convincing to me

someone finds his ID… SKINNER???? WHAT IS GOING ONNNN??

so they probably do not want to kill him if he is a proven american, which hopefully means he can get through the rest of the day until mercury comes out of retrograde or whatever 

oooo, present day!!! scully at a desk!! seems weird. i guess you have to be careful what you wish for.

BUT NOT AS WEIRD AS THE LONE GUNMEN ARRIVING AT HER PLACE OF WORK??? they say that mulder is in big trouble!!!

“the walls have ears” “i have ears, will you tell me what’s going on?” <- lmao, she’s such a smartass 

they try and explain what is going on, and she knows the queen anne right away!!! and is handling this news that it showed up this morning pretty well, all things considered.

“that’s impossible” “satellite doesn’t lie” “there’s nothing ON HERE!” <- BAHAHA, maybe i spoke too soon about her handling this news well

so the lone gunmen told him they found the queen anne, he chartered a boat, and has since gone missing!!!

love that they probably had been watching satellite on the bermuda triangle for years now to have noticed a sudden appearance. and love that mulder seemed to have a plan for what to do when that day finally arrived. truly, the lone gunmen and him match each other's freak.

they tell scully she needs to get information from the pentagon, and she heads off to go get it!!!

oh boy, kersh is gonna have a field day with this.

they’re filming this as one big walking shot, which is a cool effect 

BAHAHA, SHE WALTZES RIGHT INTO SKINNER’S OFFICE!! SHE IS NOT WAITING, and he is fully on the phone, but she does not give a FUCK, and that is my QUEEN!!!!

omg is she going to get in trouble for coming to see him… i’m nervous!!!

skinner hangs up and starts listening RIGHT AWAY!! oh yes!!!! 

OHHHH…. he doesn’t want to talk to her or hear whatever she has to say!!! 

his assistant sadly says “she walked right past me” LMAOOOO

OH SHIT, THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING!!! “you’re out of line, agent scully” “no, sir, you’re out of line” <- YEAH, SHE IS GONNA CALL HIM SIR WHILE YELLING AT HIM!!! THAT IS MY GIRL!!

“i’m sorry, but i’m coming to you for help, and i’ve got nowhere else to go. i would hope that after everything that we have been through that you’d at least have the courtesy and the decency, and not to mention the respect, to listen to what i have to say” <- OHHHH YOU TELL HIM 🔥 THAT IS FIVE FEET OF RAGE!!

he starts whining about losing his job and his pension and she ROLLS HER FUCKING EYES LMAOOOO she has had ENOUGH!!!

can she call in a favor on her father’s memory to the navy people??

she goes to open the door but he SLAMS IT SHUT OMFG????? 

(this moment was CRAAAAZY)

“use your head, scully. it’ll save your ass” “save your own ass, sir. you’ll save your head along with it”

oh my GOD, she would say “save your own ass, SIR”, that is just so her. oh, she is in her detective era, and she is not going to play nice!!!!!

skinner… i want to know what you are thinking… maybe he thinks she can call in a favor in her father’s memory like i thought…

(more post-episode thoughts: i also think that it is really interesting that she trusts the lone gunmen enough that she hears what they have to say and then IMMEDIATELY goes straight to skinner because she knows they wouldn't lie to her. even if their story sounds ridiculous, there has to be some element of truth to it, because it's Them, and they have helped the agents for so long, and they wouldn't joke about mulder being in trouble. and it's also very interesting how she drops absolutely everything and barely formulates a plan as to what to do next, because scully is usually the queen of plans and knowing what to do, and so rarely do we get to see her being impulsive... i just think it's neat)

they’re still filming this as one continuous action shot, which is so cool, and also was probably a major pain to accomplish. 

OHHH, she’s nervous!! scully is smacking the paper with the info she needs to know around in the elevator, and she hits someone who says “ouch!” and she mumbles “sorry” OHHHH, SCULLY…. my heart... she needs to save the day and she has no time for this, but she still feels bad for smacking that lady!!! ohhh my god, i just wanna put her in a nice blanket and give her a movie to watch. stop stressing her out.

she shoves through this other secretary to get to KERSH!! she must be really desperate to come to him!!! is this a trap??

FUCK!!! CSM WAS IN THERE!!!! AND HE HEARD HER SAY THAT SHE NEEDED INFORMATION OF MAXIMUM IMPORTANCE!!

nooo, she’s regretting coming in unannounced 💔💔💔 poor queen is nervously playing with her hair and then pacing the halls….. and she left the information she needed with kersh!!! so now he knows what it is she wants!!! this cannot be good!!!

she’s mumbling “what am i thinking? what am i thinking?” and calling someone on her cell!!!

but of course mulder does not pick up due to being on a different realm!!

(funny that she was in such a panic mode that she literally did not think to call him until this very moment LMAOOOO)

HOLY FUCK!!!! MY JAW IS ON THE FLOOR??? SHE GOES TO SPENDER?? “i want you to do me a favor. it’s not negotiable. either you do it, or i kill you. you understand?” <- HOLY HELL???

oh, i’m blushing and giggling and also aware that this will probably have negative career consequences for her since she just threatened CSM's most special baby boy, but i cannot pick my jaw off of the floor…..

“you okay, agent scully?” “no, i’m not. i’m a gun ready to go off, so don’t test me, spender, don’t even THINK about trying to weasel me”

ohhhh my GOD. she says she will “hunt him down” if he doesn’t come back right away with what she needs, and she doesn’t care what or who he has to do to get the answer. and then realizing how insane this sounds, she mumbles “oh god” to herself quietly.

well, the good news is, this is so uncharacteristic for her that if it’s her word against spender’s, they might be pretty evenly matched. i mean, maybe he has the promotion, but she has the longer record of service, and while she may have been demoted to domestic terrorism, she is known as the scientist and rationalist, soooo…

(i cannot quite figure out what relationship spender has to her. he sounded legitimately concerned and did not question her at all. is his personal fury more directed at mulder? i mean, there was that horrible moment where he implied that mulder was using her that was all thick and weird and tense, and he probably still has residual anger from her talking to his mother, but he doesn't seem as mad at her as he is at mulder, because if mulder came in there and did that he would have simply pulled out his gun)

very sad to see that the basement office is now filled with spender's things. i noticed he has some medal on the wall. but cannot tell what it comes from. it's far too organized!

spender leaves, and the basement office phone rings!!! and she picks it up!!! IT’S CSM??? he thinks she is diana so she LOWERS HER VOICE A LITTLE TO PRETEND TO BE HER… and he wants to know about the paper scully handed kersh!!!

LMAOOOO, HE GETS SUSPICIOUS AND SHE HANGS UP 

NOOO, SPENDER SNITCHED TO KERSH??? she calls him a rat bastard and SPRINTS OUT, LMAOOOO

i am at once amused and stressed tf out

she gets in the elevator and yells “STUPID” which i deeply relate to. some people are not great at being impulsive. her cell phone rings and she picks it up and it’s... maybe mulder???? but he is very garbled!!!

NOOOO, SHE WALKS ONTO THE FLOOR WHERE CSM AND KERSH ARE 💔💔 she goes right back into the elevator as they point at her LMAO

she is still yelling into her phone and she runs into SKINNER!!!!! it was actually HIM that was on the phone, not mulder!!

and he has the info she needs and she KISSES HIM???? ON THE LIPS??? what the hell, oh my god. 

i’m literally gasping for air, oh my god. what the hell am i watching? GOD. imagine being skinner right now. wait hold, on i’m genuinely fucking crying. tears of laughter, mind you. he must have been SO thrown off. imagine your best and most loyal agent who nearly died a horrible death is back from the grave, but now you can’t talk to her because she's trying to expose the evil government, but you did talk to her anyway to save her bestie’s ass, and she smooches you. and you’re trapped in the elevator and you might lose your job.

god. i’m fucking losing it. the way her eyes were open as she kissed him.

BUT SKINNER IS AN IMPROV LEGEND!! because he gets off on the floor where CSM and spender were, and he LOUDLY yells at her that if she EVER asks him to break protocol he will have her OUT OF THE FBI RIGHT AWAY!!!

SKINNER!! MY KING!!!!!!!!!!!

god. i still need to do that best skinner moments from s5 post.

AND SHE’S GETTING PICKED UP BY THE LONE GUNMEN IN THEIR WAGON, LMAOOOO

spender is sprinting behind them, but alas! he cannot outrun a wagon.

mulder, meanwhile, is explaining world war two to the guys who are currently in it, and hating on the spice girls. rude. spice up your life. 

OHHH, someone who will build the atom bomb is on the boat… and mulder puts that together and explains it to someone who turns out to be a german spy!! wait, was scully dancing with EINSTEIN?? or oppenheimer or someone? clearly i was too invested with her hair and dress and how she was threatening to punch mulder to pay too much attention

(there was no oppenheimer nor einstein and i feel vindicated)

there’s a big fight as mulder declares they ought to turn the ship around and go back the way they came so they can return to the present and avoid germany winning the war!!!!!

it’s so dark, it’s hard to tell what is going on as they run about the ship. ohhhh they bring mulder back to the dance hall…. CSM wants him to identify who can make the bomb….. and if he doesn’t answer the question, they will kill passengers!!! NOOOO, they did kill someone!!!!!

OH SHIT, SCULLY STEPS FORWARD, SAYING THAT SPENDER IS KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE OVER NOTHING BECAUSE MULDER DOESN’T KNOW…. but he has HER at gunpoint now!!!

NOOOOO, THE GUY THEY KILLED WAS THE SCIENTIST…. where does this leave them… does past scully have to invent the atom bomb…?

meanwhile, the lone gunmen and scully are off in the bermuda triangle, and the queen anne is right there!!!! so can they get on there and save the day?? what is the proper course of action here?!

back inside the ship in the year of our lord 1939, mulder is yelling nursery rhymes at the nazis, and scully claims to be the scientist who can end the war. but some other guy says that HE is the scientist and she was sent here to protect him, so they take THAT guy away.

1939 scully curses at CSM in german, and then they are going to EXECUTE THEM??? but the engine shuts down!!! it’s brawl time!!!

modern scully and the lone gunmen are breaking into the ship trying to find mulder!! while a jazzy soundtrack plays!! and mulder and past scully are trying to save the ship!!

he’s leading past scully… but they get caught…. BY GERMAN SKINNER?? WHO SAYS “god bless america, get your asses out of here” <- YAAAAAS DAT IST MEIN UNCLE!!!!

past scully and present scully nearly collide!! while the ballroom brawl continues in the past!! 

past mulder has to convince past scully to get them to turn the ship around or else he’ll never be born!!!

i love that he explains it to her through the lens of einstein because he knows that she would have that as a frame of reference. because there is no scully, past or present or future, who wouldn't know about einstein. that's a very cute nod to her thesis.

AND THEN. LONG MAKEOUT SESSION. IN CASE WE NEVER MEET AGAIN????

my JAW. is once AGAIN. on the FLOOR.

(the darkness of this season is pissing me off. i wanted to see that in HIGH QUALITY!)

she PUNCHES HIM, he remarks that he was expecting a left jab, and then he JUMPS OFF THE SIDE OF THE BOAT??

past scully tosses a life preserver over!!!! and we’re back to the present!!!!

ohhh, mulder has flowers by his hospital bed, and the lone gunmen and skinner are all there… they must have fished him out!!

he’s trying to explain to her how she saved the world!!! and she just sarcastically agrees.

and the queen anne was just a ghost ship!!!!

(turns out a ghost ship means a ship with nobody on it, not a phantom of a boat. this is important to know because at first i was like "wtf, scully believes in ghosts now, but only for boats?")

skinner tells mulder that he better get well soon because is going to kick his ass (deserved) and then he and the gunmen leave. but scully stays behind.

“i would’ve never seen you again. but you believed me” (she leans in) “in your dreams” 

ohhh... it is sickeningly sweet as she tells him to go to sleep.

“hey, scully?” (he sits up) “yes?” (loooong silence) “i love you” “…oh, brother”

(as she leaves, he cradles the eye where past scully punched him in the face, smiling)

oh my god. i mean, it’s not like we really needed confirmation that he had feelings for her, but. like. that was it. he said the words. and then held his face where she punched him and remembered kissing her.

so, did the time warp really happen? who is to say? it’s fun to turn around both possibilities in your mind. the possibility that past scully really did believe him and was able to save the world AND the possibility that it would only happen in his dreams. 

there is so much to analyze here.

spender being a nazi… and skinner being a nazi… and CSM being a nazi… some of these make more sense than others. what are the implications... spender could speak both languages... is that an indication he is a double agent?

her saying “oh brother” to his love confession… oh my god, she must have thought he was sky high… i wonder how she felt hearing him say that? i wonder if she thought it was a joke, or if he really meant it, or it was the insane ramblings of someone very ill. i wonder if part of her felt crushed to hear those words, like that fragile thing that they have between them was being tampered with. or i wonder if she had always wanted to hear him say that and never let herself imagine it. either way, better to approach it from the angle of a sick man's mumbling. probably the only way to make sense of it. but i know she went home Wondering.

and what are they going to do about scully’s erratic behavior???? she normally conducts herself with such rationality! and today she barged in on two assistant directors, threatened to kill spender, and then ran off with the gunmen in a wagon! oh my god!!! i guess we won’t know!!! it looks like the next episode is a two parter, so i doubt that we will have time to examine the consequences from today.

but then again, rationality isn't ALWAYS her thing. gestures to all of the times she has nearly killed someone for getting between her and mulder before.

if you do consider the time warp to have actually happened, it’s very interesting that it shows scully has the capacity for belief. this whole episode was analyzing how scully responds to crisis- but that particular crisis being losing him for real. there have been close calls before, but this was unexpected and bizarre. usually she is very calm in crisis. but there are certain things in life you simply cannot prepare for. there’s FBI training on hostage situations and disease protocol, but nothing for “your partner travels back in time”

skinner…. my best friend…. he put it all on the line for them AND made an incredibly convincing performance in front of spender and CSM… the oscar goes to him

oh scully, i just. oh my god, man. i love her!!! her being impulsive because she had no choice!!! telling spender she would kill him!!! and then going in the hallway and mumbling “stupid, stupid”!!! apologizing for smacking that lady!!! kissing her boss on the mouth with her eyeballs open because she was so overcome with emotion!! that is MY disaster medical doctor special agent scully!!

and mulder thinking he was going to to die slash never be born at all so he KISSED her while he could…. and then back in the real world using his delirium as an excuse to say “i love you”, to hear how those words sound coming from his mouth… just to know what it felt like...

oh my god. i need to snuggle into a big cuddly blanket and scream a little.

so, now let us analyze mulder's recent behavior, stretching from the tail end of s5 to now. and you have to promise that you won't tell me if any particular theories i put forward are right or wrong! you can only comment on if you think my proposed theories are interesting. because i assume that YOU know why mulder is being weird (snapping at scully, agreeing to go undercover, fucking off to investigate a ship, and then confessing love despite his actions and words indicating disdain, etc) but i just do not.

i can put together from the comments left on my last posts and vague subtext in the show itself that there is SOMETHING afoot with mulder, which is why he is acting like a dick. but i cannot figure out WHAT it is. my guess is that maybe he is in some sort of danger so he’s trying to push scully away?? in an attempt to save her?? like when he went undercover, but maybe something even bigger and scarier??? but maybe he could use his vulnerability to confess how he really felt while he had the chance?? and then he will go back to being all moody?? because he thinks that he is in danger and doesn't have much time left? and maybe he thinks that if he acts all rude and terrible scully will be able to handle his demise?

the only other thing i can guess (and again: don’t tell me if i’m right or wrong!! i just want to voice my thoughts) is that maybe something is happening with his mom?? but if his mom was sick or dying or something, it still doesn’t make sense for him to take it out on scully. but then again, people take their rage out on each other in real life all the time, even if it doesn't make any sense.

maybe it’s something with his sister? i mean we saw his “sister” that CSM brought to him a while ago, but it was never addressed again… i mean, i don’t believe it was really her anyway, but maybe he thinks that diana can help him find her?? because she came back into town for some unfinished business or for family or something- what was it she said in the car with gibson? so maybe they’re plotting something together?? and he thinks (stupidly) that diana can help him with some secret thing he cannot tell scully about???

man. i don’t know. and i will have to just keep moving forward to find out. which means i will probably have to endure more bitchy mulder before i get answers. and then once i DO get answers, i will have to see if i judge them to be valid or not. 

but let us not look too far into the future. let us look to what we have been given, which is 1939 AU scully in a beautiful red backless dress, and noir detective canon scully, and sleepy, loopy, delirious lover boy mulder, and skinner who is the best boss around, and three guys in a wagon who will save their buddy from a time-traveling ship. and that is so beautiful. amen.

i realize i wrote all of that and never outright stated my feelings on the episode. while you probably picked up on it, but i did enjoy it! i was laughing and gasping and blushing and giggling. it was nice to have a change in pace. i thought the way it was shot was really interesting as well, with all of the perpetual motion. it had many of the things i consider integral to a good episode, which include, but are not limited to: skinner acting prickly and detached but then pulling through and saving the day, scully threatening to kill people and commanding a scene, mulder nerding tf out and reciting facts, fun costumes, MSR bait, and things you can turn around in your head over and over to make your own interpretations on! i'm not sure if it would make my top 15 episodes list just because it was SO zany and i'm having trouble wrapping my head around that, but definitely a contender.

i have a feeling my thoughts on this episode will grow and change with time, which is perfectly acceptable. i'll try to crack the symbolism of mulder's time warp visions in more detail moving forward, and i will probably find scully's panic somewhat out of character, if endearing. but you only get to watch something for the first time once. and so we share this moment together, you and i.

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All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Triangle (6x03)

Nothing had gone according to plan from the moment the stranger stepped into the ballroom, peeking out from beneath the brim of a German officer's hat. Judy Montgomery had boarded the S.S. Queen Anne under the assumption that she would carry out her mission undetected. Like a ghost. But this strange man –whoever he was– seemed to know everything about her, everything that had happened and even everything that would come to pass.

How was that possible?

The pair of them ran pell-mell down the ship’s long vestibules, as if trapped in a maze, his sweaty hand wrapped tightly around her own. He’d told her she was the only person who could save the ship, and although she didn’t know why, something compelled her to trust the man. Besides, what did she have to lose? Her mission had failed, and German troops had boarded. 

In any event, the stranger seemed to share her distaste for Nazis. In these times, that was really all that mattered.

They ran down countless hallways and staircases, all of it feeling like some labyrinthine dream. But when they rounded a corner, there was a moment Judy felt something very real: a flash of unfamiliar imagery in her mind. American flags waving in front of a tall building, vehicles driving in front of it that looked nothing like the ones she was used to seeing. Most importantly, a woman who looked a bit like her, standing next to a familiar man. They were talking closely to one another like compatriots. Like friends.

Like equals.

“Come on, Scully!” he shouted, pulling her back to the present. What the devil was that? 

And who was Scully? It was like he thought that was her name, but it certainly didn't sound like any name she’d ever heard.  

She did her best to keep up with his long strides, and eventually he found a crew member exit, flinging them both out onto the deck. The chilly nighttime air stung her face but the stillness around them slowed everything down, which was exactly what she needed.

“What are you doing?” She wanted answers. She would go no further without them.

“Telling you how to save the ship,” he said.

“Out here?”

“I can't stay. I gotta get back to history. You’ve gotta rescue it.”

“What?” Back to history? This was some kind of joke, it had to be. She was staring into the eyes of a crazed lunatic who’d dragged her all over the ship, and for some reason she’d allowed it. She hated that, most likely, it was because he was so damn handsome.

“Wait, listen to me,” he said, grabbing her hand again. “The ship's been caught in something called the Devil's Triangle. Some kind of time warp.”

Judy had heard of this kind of thing before, but only from the likes of H.G. Wells. Science fiction. 

“Are you crazy?” she asked him, quite seriously.

“You know Einstein, right?” he asked. The idea that he’d listened to her and remembered every word she’d spoken made her want to listen, too. “He predicts the theoretical possibility. He also predicts an atomic weapon to destroy the world.”

“Yeah? So what?”

“If you don't go back and convince the crew to head back into the Devil's Triangle, everything Einstein predicted will become true, except for the outcome of history.”

She wasn’t sure what to make of all this, but what he wanted from her was simple and clear. “So… if I don't turn this ship around…” 

“In all likelihood, I won't exist. And neither will you.” 

Despite all her prior misgivings, she now found herself battling against her own impulse to believe every word this man was saying. And although the science was foreign to her, he was looking at her now with an expression she could definitely understand: it was yearning. A deep, passionate yearning she’d read about in books but one that, here and now, with this man, she had not earned. 

“So in case we never meet again…” he mumbled, and quite suddenly he was grabbing her by the neck and pulling her in to kiss her, his lips crushing against hers. 

A man taking a liberty such as this would typically provoke her to knee him in the groin, then punch him in the stomach, just like she’d been taught in her OSS training. But instead, Judy fell into the kiss, because something about it was magical– as if it opened a window into that other world, the one where she was his equal. And she found herself realizing that he didn’t merely resemble the man she’d seen in her vision moments ago; he was that very man, in what she now believed could only be the future, his future, standing closely to a woman who looked like her, just like this. Asking her to believe him.

Needing her to believe him.

Somewhere out there, in some other stitch of time, there was a woman of whom she reminded him: someone he cared about deeply.

Time stood still as they kissed, and somewhere in the furthest recesses of her secret heart, she wanted to keep kissing this man until the sun exploded. But eventually he let her go, and Judy drew back, struck dumb, wobbling a bit. As the real world shifted back into focus, her inherent sense of decorum took over and she popped him one, right in the kisser.

The stranger recovered quickly and smiled, touching his cheek tenderly. With a gentle huff of a laugh, he said, “I was expecting a left.” Then he spun around, and with no hesitation whatsoever, threw himself overboard.

Judy watched in utter confusion, tossing him a life preserver. She could not make heads nor tails of this encounter, but the one thing she knew with every fiber of her soul was that she believed him.

She turned and headed towards the engine room. Whatever it took, she would convince the engineers to turn the ship around.

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🥏 TXF Fic Rec #37: "Sixty Degrees of Separation" by denynothing1

After Mulder drops his bedside love confession and gets an “oh brother” in return, it’s never brought up again, seriously? You’d expect their feelings to be jolted, especially during such a delicate time right after Diana’s arrival and their loss of the X-Files, right?

Today’s rec is possibly the best post-ep for ‘Triangle’. It continues with the surreal atmosphere, taking Mulder in and out of more WWII dream sequences, which is a treat. The angst is there, but the tone stays light and fun. It’s a character-driven story that earnestly tackles the complex dynamics between our leads, featuring excellent character voices for both. This is the kind of top-shelf writing I live for.

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🥏 on AO3

author: @denynothing1 length: short, 12,000+ words season: season 6, 6x03 Triangle pairing(s): M/S UST tags: episode-related, fluff, angst, humor, jealousy, hurt/comfort, Diana Fowley, Mulder-POV rating: G

[skelavender]

in triangle when mulder says i love you and scully thinks hes joking he looks so HEARTBROKEN

[soufflegirl]

my headcanon for Triangle is that Mulder had recently watched Titanic (1997)

[youreadarkwizard]

The X-Files “Triangle” (6x03) | “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” (11x04)

Bonus:

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THE MENTALIST / THE X-FILES / CASTLE ❤️

6x03 “Wedding in Red” / 3x11 “Revelations” / 4x10 “Cuffed”

[whump-collector]

The X-Files Whumplist

I watched the X-files for the first time and made a little whump list. Under the readmore you will also find Scully, Skinner, Doggett and Reyes. If I ever do a rewatch, I will add Krycek. If there is another character you're missing, let me know and I will add them as well.

Mulder: 1x02: punched, caught by military, tied to stretcher, unconscious 1x05: attacked, scratched/cut, bleeding through t-shirt 1x07: at gunpoint 1x08: attacked by dog, hit over the head, locked up, manhandled 1x10: knocked out, handcuffed, caged, thrown throug air, walking on crutches 1x11: at gunpoint (briefly) 1x12: nearly unconscious because of smoke from fire, helped to walk, oxygen mask, coughing 1x13: shot, oxygen mask, in hospital 1x14: knocked out 1x17: tripped, limping, at gunpoint 1x20: attacked by insects 1x21: attacked by "baddie of the week" 1x24: ambushed, tear gased (kind of), tied up, kidnapped 2x01: unconscious 2x03: attacked, bandaged arm, sprayed with pesticides 2x04: "shot" 2x05: at gunpoint, tied up, held hostage 2x07: attacked, beaten up 2x08: manhandeld, beaten up, at gunpoint, crying 2x09: attacked, at gunpoint 2x12: knocked down, knife to throat 2x14: attacked, tied up 2x15: at gunpoint, vodoo 2x16: hypothermia, oxygen mask, in hospital, hit by car 2x17: crying, knocked out, unconscious, beaten up, hypothermia, oxygen mask, in hospital, defibrillator 2x18: attacked by gorilla, unconscious 2x19: rapidly aging, in hospital 2x25: manhandled, sick, crying, shot

3x01: unconscious 3x02: shot at 3x04: in a fight, cut 3x07: thrown across room 3x08: crying 3x09: in fight 3x10: choked, beaten up, unconscious 3x12: at gunpoint, shot at 3x14: attacked, at gunpoint, cut 3x15: at gunpoint 3x16: in car crash, in hospital, at gunpoint 3x17: at gunpoint 3x23: at gunpoint 3x24: crying, in a fight, at gunpoint 4x01: manhandled, thrown against car, crying 4x02: attacked 4x03: shot with poisoned dart, collapsing, paralyzed 4x05: crying 4x08: unconscious, imprisoned, manhandled, restrained, infected 4x09: imprisoned, in car crash 4x10: handcuffed 4x15: knocked down 4x18: manhandled, at gunpoint 4x20: knocked out, locked up 4x23: in shock, headache, in pain, collapsing, arrested, handcuffed, slapped 4x24: crying 5x01: crying 5x02: crying 5x03: shot at, at gunpoint, drugged 5x04: attacked, injured, fell into hole 5x05: passing out 5x07: at gunpoint, crying 5x08: at gunpoint 5x09: tree fell on car while driving, sunk into ground 5x11: electroshocked, electrocuted, trapped in simulation, burned, in hospital, restrained, suffocated, arms amputated in simulation, unconscious 5x12: drugged, passing out 5x14: manhandled, at gunpoint 5x18: blindfolded, restrained, finger broken, at gunpoint, manhandled, kneeling 5x19: bandaged fingers, held hostage, at gunpoint, kneeling, manhandled, in hospital, tied to bed The Movie: shot, blood, in hospital, bandaged head, at gunpoint 6x01: at gunpoint 6x02: at gunpoint 6x03: drowning, manhandled, beaten, at knifepoint, at gunpoint, kneeling, in hospital 6x04: at gunpoint, slapped, manhandled, handcuffed 6x05: handcuffed, manhandled, locked up 6x06: at gunpoint, shot, bleeding 6x08: cut 6x09: shot at 6x12: decontaminated 6x13: at gunpoint, attacked, trouble with breathing, weak 6x14: shot 6x21: buried, unconscious, on stretcher 6x22: in pain, collapsing, in hospital 7x01: in hospital, manhandled, tied to bed 7x02: in hospital, handcuffed, restrained, unconscious 7x04: attacked, injured, blood 7x06: fell through floor, at gunpoint, shot 7x09: bit by snake, in hospital 7x10: crying 7x12: at gunpoint 7x13: attacked, beaten up, knocked out 7x16: attacked, drowned 7x18: coughing up blood, unconscious, in hospital, coughing, choking 7x20: beaten up 8x01: restrained, operated on, screaming 8x02: restrained 8x14: restrained, unconscious, dead 8x15: in hospital 8x16: in hospital, flashbacks to torture, scars 8x17: manhandled 8x20: thrown through wall, unconscious, cut 8x21: at gunpoint 9x19/20: choked, thrown across room, at gunpoint, in prison, beaten up, manhandled Second movie: in car crash, blood, drugged, passing out, punched 10x01: blindfolded 10x02: in pain, thrown across room 10x03: attacked 10x05: drugged, whipped, in hospital 10x06: beaten up, choked, sick 11x01: manhandled 11x02: at gunpoint, shot at, handcuffed, manhandled 11x03: in fight 11x06: trapped 11x07: shot at 11x09: attacked 11x10: at gunpoint, crying

Scully: 1x01: briefly knocked out 1x03: attacked by "baddie of the week" 1x07: blown through air vent, nearly chopped into pieces by fan 1x08: locked up, manhandled 1x11: knocked out, at gunpoint (briefly) 1x14: knocked down, knocked out 1x15: handcuffed, at gunpoint, held hostage 1x16: shot in vest 1x20: attacked by insects, unconcious 2x05: kidnapped 2x06: gagged, tied up, in car trunk, unconscious, operated on 2x08: in hospital 2x09: handcuffed 2x13: in car crash, kidnapped, tied up, gagged, fight with kidnapper, crying 2x14: attacked, tied up 2x15: at gunpoint, vodoo 2x17: beaten up, kidnapped, at gunpoint 2x19: rapidly aging, in hospital 2x21: thrown across room 2x24: knocked down, kidnapped, gagged, tied up, almost beheaded 3x01: at gunpoint, crying 3x02: at gunpoint, shot at 3x06: attacked by "baddie" of the week 3x10: at gunpoint 3x16: shot at, at gunpoint 3x17: at gunpoint 3x18: attacked by cat 3x21: knocked out 4x01: choked 4x02: attacked 4x04: drugged, kidnapped, tied up 4x12: attacked by "baddie of the week" 4x13: in a fight, knocked out 4x14: crying 4x15: knocked down 4x22: in a fight, cut, crying 4x23: at gunpoint 4x24: knocked down a flight of stairs 5x01: collapsing 5x02: in hospital, crying 5x04: fell into hole 5x05: passing out 5x06: crying 5x07: crying 5x08: at gunpoint, shot 5x11: electroshocked, at gunpoint, handcuffed 5x12: drugged, passing out 5x14: burned, unconscious, in hospital 5x17: crying The Movie: stung by bee, collapsing, in ambulance, unconscious, kidnapped 6x03: at gunpoint, kneeling 6x04: at gunpoint 6x06: passing out, at gunpoint, shot at, shot, bleeding 6x10: shot, in hospital 6x12: decontaminated 6x13: at gunpoint 6x18: attacked, blood 6x20: attacked, drugged 6x21: buried, unconscious, on stretcher 7x01: attacked by insects 7x04: attacked 7x07: attacked, choked, tied up, gagged 7x09: manhandled 7x12: at gunpoint 7x14: blinded 7x15: shot at 7x17: crying 7x20: beaten up 7x22: crying, collapsing, in hospital 8x02: at gunpoint, crying, thrown through room, in hospital 8x04: manhandled, infected, restrained, gagged, unconscious 8x07: in hospital 8x10: crying 8x13: manhandled, sedated, passing out, in hospital 8x14: crying 8x15: crying 8x17: in hospital, unconscious 9x03: attacked 9x09: in a fight, blood 9x19/20: crying Second movie: crying 10x02: thrown across room, unconscious 10x03: attacked 10x04: crying 11x01: unconscious, in hospital, in pain, in car crash, attacked, choked 11x02: at gunpoint, shot at, handcuffed, manhandled 11x05: crying 11x07: shot at 11x09: attacked 11x10: crying

Skinner: 2x17: in a fight 2x25: punched 3x01: at gunpoint 3x02: at gunpoint, beaten up 3x09: at gunpoint 3x15: shot 3x16: in hospital 3x17: beaten up 4x21: at gunpoint 6x09: sick, in hospital, flatlining, beaten, shot at, at gunpoint, collapsing, passing out 7x01: attacked, choked 7x22: crying 8x02: at gunpoint, unconscious 8x15: collapsing, sick, manhandled 8x21: attacked, unconscious, in hospital 11x01: at gunpoint, manhandled 11x06: trapped, impaled

Doggett: 8x03: attacked, drowned 8x07: nightmare 8x11: shot, buried 8x12: attacked, knocked out, unconscious 8x15: in a fight 8x16: at gunpoint, held hostage, shot 8x17: at gunpoint 8x18: knocked out, cut, at knifepoint, choked 8x19: blinded, fallen, unconscious, blood 8x21: choked 9x01: drowned 9x02: beaten up 9x04: shot, in hospital 9x07: in prison, at gunpoint, attacked, beaten up, crying 9x09: run over, blood, unconscious 9x10: in hospital, unconscious 9x11: crying 9x12: stabbed 9x14: at gunpoint, attacked, falling 9x16: knocked down, beaten up 9x18: knocked out, unconscious

Reyes: 8x17: knocked out 8x21: thrown against wall 9x04: cut, blood, knife to throat 9x07: manhandled, at gunpoint 9x08: knife to throat 9x11: in car crash, in hospital, crying 9x12: attacked 9x13: choked 9x14: attacked 11x01: at gunpoint 11x10: shot

[thexfileswithoutcontext]

except for episode 6x03

listen the cinematography and lighting in the xfiles is 🤌

[heartbash]

X files ask game: Top 10 best episodes?

This is so hard! What's difficult is making sure to consider the entire episode vs focusing on specific moments/scenes that I love.

This list is ever-changing, but this is how I feel today.

In chronological order:

Ice (1x08) - the tension! a bottle episode!

Beyond the Sea (1x13) - the acting blows me away

Irresistible (2x13) - love the exploration of Scully's vulnerability and such a scary villain

Pusher (3x17) - my favorite MOTW

Memento Mori (4x14) - such a gut punch of an episode, and, god, you really feel the love between them

Detour (5x04) - great MOTW and interesting M/S dynamic post-remission

Bad Blood (5x12) - endlessly entertaining

Fight the Future (movie) - will always be my #1 favorite

Triangle (6x03) - such a solid, fun episode with two great stories simultaneously

The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat (11x04) - makes me cackle throughout and the ending absolutely slays me ("Where're you taking Reggie?!")

Honorable Mentions:

Never Again (4x13) - I love angst

All Things (7x17) - hard not to include this somewhere because I believe S's journey in this episode led her to take the next step with M in their relationship

This (11x02) - an episode of the revival that really felt like "them" to me

X-Files Ask Game!

[the1013file]

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

juni's x files liveblog masterpost (s4-s6)

since tumblr only allows for 100 links per post, as i delve deeper and deeper into the x files, i will have to break my masterposts up!

click here for seasons 1 through 3.

click here for seasons 7 and beyond.

this one includes seasons 4 through 6 AND fight the future!

season 4:

4x01 Herrenvolk

4x02 Home

4x03 Teliko

4x04 Unruhe

4x05 The Field Where I Died

4x06 Sanguinarium

4x07 Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man

4x08 Tunguska

4x09 Terma

4x10 Paper Hearts

4x11 El Mundo Gira

4x12 Leonard Betts

4x13 Never Again

4x14 Memento Mori

4x15 Kaddish

4x16 Unrequited

4x17 Tempus Fugit

4x18 Max

4x19 Synchrony

4x20 Small Potatoes

4x21 Zero Sum

4x22 Elegy

4x23 Demons

4x24 Gethsemane

favorite scully moments

favorite mulder moments

favorite duo moments

season 5:

5x01 Redux, Part 1

5x02 Redux, Part 2

5x03 Unusual Suspects

5x04 Detour

5x05 The Post-Modern Prometheus

5x06 Christmas Carol

5x07 Emily (+ More Thoughts Re: Episodes 6 and 7)

5x08 Kitsunegari

5x09 Schizogeny

5x10 Chinga

5x11 Kill Switch

5x12 Bad Blood

5x13 Patient X

5x14 The Red and The Black

5x15 Travelers

5x16 Mind's Eye

5x17 All Souls

5x18 The Pine Bluff Variant

5x19 Folie a Deux

5x20 The End

favorite scully moments

favorite mulder moments

favorite duo moments

fight the future (split into parts!)

part 1

part 2

season 6:

6x01 The Beginning

6x02 Drive

6x03 Triangle

6x04 Dreamland, Part 1

6x05 Dreamland, Part 2

6x06 How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

6x07 Terms of Endearment

6x08 The Rain King

6x09 S.R.819

6x10 Tithonus

6x11 Two Fathers

6x12 One Son

6x13 Agua Mala

6x14 Monday

6x15 Arcadia

6x16 Alpha

6x17 Trevor

6x18 Milagro

6x19 The Unnatural

6x20 Three of a Kind

6x21 Field Trip

6x22 Biogenesis

favorite scully moments

favorite mulder moments

favorite duo moments

[mvalana]

The X-Files 6x03 Triangle