Klaatu Barada Nikto

Episodes 16 & 17 of The X-Files season 1 continue an uneven run.

Young At Heart should be a good monster of the week episode with a man with a salamander hand! But somehow that never really factors into anything, least of all the villain's new career as a piano tuner. We're pretty sure Scully's losing another one of her friends after the events of this episode.

E.B.E. is a gloriously good episode and filled with conspiratorial goodness. We get a little hung up on our own separate ideas of what was where in the truck (and why you would ship an alien body to Washington state for killing when surely that can also be done in Turkey?) and when, but can agree we like The Lone Gunmen and the increasing murky levels that Deep Throat is operating in.

Kim's Conspiracy Corner finds us wondering about potentially another type of alien who don't quite match any from previous encounters.

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