"The X Files"
The Beginning (1998)

Director:

Kim Manners

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Chris Carter (written by)

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

8 November 1998 (Season 6, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Mulder and Scully's ability to pursue the X-Files and their partnership is threatened by the hunt for a deadly creature in the Arizona desert, whose capture could prove Mulder's theories about the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Plot Keywords:

Romance | Female FBI Agent | Romantic Tension | Glock | Cult TV

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi	...	Walter Skinner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wayne Alexander	...	Assistant Director Arnold
Alan Henry Brown	...	Second Scientist
William B. Davis	...	Cigarette Smoking Man / CGB Spender
Scott Eberlein	...	Black Haired Man
Jeff Gulka	...	Gibson Andrew Praise
Hardia Madden	...	FBI
Wendie Malick	...	A.D. Maslin
Benito Martinez	...	Orderly
Ralph Meyering Jr.	...	Surgeon
Rick Millikan	...	Sandy
George Murdock	...	Elder #2
Christopher Neiman	...	Car Pool Man
Chris Owens	...	FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Spender
James Pickens Jr.	...	FBI Assistant Director Alvin Kersh
Kim Robillard	...	2nd Workman aka 'Homer'
Mimi Rogers	...	Agent Diana Fowley
Arthur Taxier	...	A.D. Bart
Don S. Williams	...	Elder #1
Wayne Thomas Yorke	...	1st Workman

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

The guard sleeping in front of the nuclear power plant console is named Homer (as in "The Simpsons" (1989)).

Quotes:

The Cigarette Smoking Man: You can kill a man but you can't kill what he stands for. Not unless you first break his spirit. That's a beautiful thing to see.

Movie Connections:

References "The Simpsons" (1989)

A Change Of Scenery

Bye, bye, Vancouver! Season six begins with production switching from dark, cold, and gloomy Vancouver to sunny and warm Los Angeles. The producers let us know immediately by having the first shot of the teaser be of the bright, hot sun. While the fitting atmosphere of Vancouver is missed, the producers do their best to keep the mood of the X-Files by keeping all the inside locations dark and shadowy and shooting plenty of night scenes. The van in the teaser of the episode has "Roush Technologies" on the side, a nice throw-back reference to Redux II from the previous season. Roush is the shady company for whom Blevins worked before he was outed. CSM's indifference to others is illustrated once more as he enters a sterilized operating room while smoking a cigarette. The man has no conscience. It's great to see the dramatic tension that Diana Fowley and Jeffrey Spender bring to the X-Files. They are characters that you love to hate, as they appear to try to thwart Mulder's work on the X-Files. A.D. Kersh's introduction I found to be eerily similar to CSM's. No dialogue, just a short cameo. Even though the scenery has changed, the writers, directors and actors are still the same, and the X-Files is as strong as ever.