Supposedly, we may see Mulder again in this episode.

I heard it was supposed to be in "Redrum", the week after...

Imagine, if you will, that you've never seen X-Files before. You don't know who Scully or Doggett are. Having seen this episode, would you have any idea that this was anything other than an anthology show?

Nope. It felt more like "Outer Limits" than like an X-File (but you could say the same for other X-F eps, such as "Hungry").

BTW, O moderator, this was not "Via Negativa," but "Redrum" (murder spelled backwards). Please fix!

Most intriguing idea this season, but not enough Scully/Doggett involvement. Well scripted, directed, shot--I enjoyed it. At least we did get to see Doggett's place.

Please, a Mulder mention in the next episode! I miss Mulder.

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Why would a convicted felon be in a lock up facility with the jailed prosecutor?

Why didn't police find the nanny cam in their search of the house?

I missed the very tail end (from about the time Campos(?) killed the wife) and got back just in time to see Martin in jail (3 months later).

What happened?

Wells talks about the videotape in the nanny-cam, but the camera and playback looked more like a digital system.

Doggett has to punch out a full number to reach Scully on his phone. I would think he'd have his partner on speed-dial. (It's not impossible that he'd neglect this, but it does look odd.)

SCOTT: Martin ends up on the day of his wife's murder. He tries calling his wife's apartment, but no one is there. He calls the police to get over there, but they don't believe him. He goes over to Doggett's, gets him to call the police, and admits he suppressed evidence years before. He then drives back to his apartment, but his wife is not there, and the police are confused. After the police leave, his wife shows up (she had a flat tire). Suddenly, Campos bursts in, and proceeds to beat up Wells, and is just about to kill his wife when Doggett and Scully arrive to blow the killer away. The watch suddenly begins to click forward in time. Wells is then put in prison for his suppression of evidence years before.

Very good episode, but a little too "Twilight Zone" for my tastes (Leads? What leads?). But it was an excellent episode, which is rare for today's X-Files.

ScottN, the wife doesn't die, because Doggett followed Martin to the house and comes in just in time to shoot the bad guy, whom Martin is too injured to reach in time. [Scully is with him] Doggett asks Martin if this was the second chance he mentioned, Martin says yes. And we focus on Scully's watch again as the hands stop moving and then start going forward.

OKAY--I am calling out an alert to all fans on this board who tape these episodes. We need to know the actual dates for some of these episodes, so we can nitpick whether they're getting Scully's pregnancy right! "Redrum" has Dec. dates, the murder takes place on Dec. 4th (a Monday)--so when did "Requiem" happen? I had a vague idea that it was in June sometime, latest possible date the last week of. We should not be in to Dec. yet, and even if we disregard that, and say we just haven't seen any of Scully and Doggett's fall cases, there still remains the issue of the pregnancy.
If Scully became pregnant sometime in June (it is discovered in "Requeim"), then she is nearly 6 months along! (at the *very* least she is 23-25 weeks by the date of "Redrum") She ought to be showing by now. Scully is a little woman. I have a friend about the same size, who by that time was showing visibly. I will certainly be watching for dates from now on, but since I can't tape, would you guys help me out?

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Folks, just a slight confused me ... last night's episode was Redrum right? This is the Via Negativa section.

Sarah: I'd like to see a date for "Requiem", too. As you said, there are some nits. They picked up the new season only a couple of days after "Requiem", and now they're in December?

If "Requiem" did happen in the fall, then Scully should have been freezing while walking through the desert at night in the first ep. of this season.

It is possible, however, for a woman that small not to show at all until month eight or so (but of course, we know that Gillian Anderson is not one of those women, so Scully can't be....)

Interesting that at no time did the Nanny-Cam
actually show the murderer but rather Wells,and
as he went back in time we are shown that is
because the attacker was never in actual line
of the Nanny-Cam!

A nice touch of de ja vu in the end showing
Wells in prison again.

Wouldn't the police have someone stay at least
in the neighborhood of the Wells residence?

I just checked the Mytharc Tracker on the Offical Site, figuring they should at least have a month for "Requeim." So they do--MAY! If that is true then I was off by about four weeks, and Scully should be 27-29 weeks along by "Redrum" (again, this is assuming the pregnancy began just before "Requiem", not as far back as "all things"). Assuming the events of "Requiem" did take place in May, it must have been the last week of, since Doggett ("Within") has those records for the May weekends showing Mulder's trips to Raleigh. This just keeps getting more complicated.... *sigh*

BUT THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE [YOU JUST HAVE TO KNOW WHERE TO LOOK]

Did anyone mistake the main charachter (name escapes me) for Tim Russ?? I was scared at first, but it turns out he was in this great "Men in Black meets The Matrix" movie called _Brother From Another Planet_. Pretty smegging cool. (PS, for those of you fortunate enough not to know, Tim Russ plays Tuvok on ST:V. Eeeevil...)

The actor who played Martin was also in Terminator 2 with the actor who plays Doggett. He invented the chip which lead to Cyberdine (sp?)

Well, what can you say? If anything's gonna lead to paradoxi (is that the right plural?) this has got to be it! But then, I'm won't be watching it until tomorrow, so it could all change by then!