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Featuring a lot of hands-on-shoulder action, this episode marked the return of the black oil. I've never defaulted oil to any other colour but black but was able to enjoy what is essentially a mythology episode nonetheless.
Drilling off the coast off somewhere between Mexico and Texas, the Olpex oil rig plays murder scene with the torched corpse of some "mixed-mexican" Cruz. In essence the death of de la Cruz is nothing more than an alien cover-up of their existence. Similarities of the owner of the oil rig align this episode with the metro operator in Medusa. Plump guys who want nothing else but a seamless flow of operations. The whole rig is full of infected workers by the notoriously slick, alien black oil. Didn't realise it before but I may of been subliminally channelling Mulder's sense of humour, like the part where Doggett imparts some stories learnt of Mulder's infatuation with conspiracies.
If not for Scully this would have been a total male only show. Kersch is one tight bastard. So tight that in the end, Mulder is given the boot out of the FBI taking full blame for what transpired out off the coast. What a way to go, show the only one people half respect and working within the X-Files the truth and be on your way. Anyway, the dude wasn't killed by the black oil, he was killed because he was immune to the black oil, not of "mixed-mexican" descent, but because he was a Native American. Couldn't make out the tribe, might of been Weychen or something phonetically similar. I'm not that good with aural once overs.
The film seemed kind of mattey. Blurry in some scenes, and that explosion at the end seemed way to hacknslashed. It was a nice episode.
Saturday, 9 June 2001 - 06:11
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